The birth of bebop : a social and musical history / by DeVeaux, Scott Knowles

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Drummin' Men : the Heartbeat of Jazz -- The Bebop Years. by Korall, Burt

Table of Contents: “…CONTENTS; PREFACE; 1. Bebop; 2. from Swing to Bop-The Visionaries; 3. Transitional figures; 4. …”
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Jazz matters : sound, place, and time since bebop / by Ake, David Andrew, 1961-

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Kansas City jazz : from ragtime to bebop : a history / by Driggs, Frank, Haddix, Chuck

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The Amazing Bud Powell : Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop / by Ramsey, Guthrie P.

Table of Contents: “…Little cullud boys with beards : serious Black music and the art of bebop -- Something else : the tests and triumphs of a modernist -- Notes and tones : Black genius in the social order -- Making the changes : jazz manhood, bebop virtuosity, and a new social contract -- Exploding narratives and structures in the art of Bud Powell -- Coda : cultural accreditation and requiem for a heavyweight.…”
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The Amazing Bud Powell : Black Genius, Jazz History, and the Challenge of Bebop / by Ramsey, Guthrie P.

Table of Contents: “…Little cullud boys with beards : serious Black music and the art of bebop -- Something else : the tests and triumphs of a modernist -- Notes and tones : Black genius in the social order -- Making the changes : jazz manhood, bebop virtuosity, and a new social contract -- Exploding narratives and structures in the art of Bud Powell -- Coda : cultural accreditation and requiem for a heavyweight.…”
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Honi Coles & Cholly Atkins : over the top to bebop /

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Four jazz lives by Spellman, A. B., 1935-

“…Four lives in the bebop business.…”
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James Baldwin and Toni Morrison : comparative critical and theoretical essays

Table of Contents: “…s Bop n?Morrison?s Mood: Bebop and Race in James Baldwin?s Another Country and Toni Morrison?…”
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Glorious days and nights : a jazz memoir by Snitzer, Herb

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings -- MOP, MOP ... bebop -- My world of jazz -- On the bus with Pops and Duke -- The demise of Metronome -- Europe and Cambridge -- Conversations -- Switezerland -- Photographs -- Afterword: the state of jazz / Dan Morgenstern.…”
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Glorious days and nights : a jazz memoir by Snitzer, Herb

Table of Contents: “…Beginnings -- MOP, MOP ... bebop -- My world of jazz -- On the bus with Pops and Duke -- The demise of Metronome -- Europe and Cambridge -- Conversations -- Switezerland -- Photographs -- Afterword: the state of jazz / Dan Morgenstern.…”
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Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State by Oliphant, Dave

Table of Contents: “…Tuning up with a few introductory notes -- Jazz mavericks of the Lone Star State -- The roots of Texan jazz -- From bebop to hard bop and beyond : the Texas jazz connections -- Texas bebop messengers to the world : Kenny Dorham and Leo Wright -- British acolytes of jazz and its Texas contingent -- The Wisconsin-Texas jazz nexus -- Jazz in literature -- The alchemy of jazz -- Ornette Coleman's harmolodic life -- A jazz master's diamond jubilee -- A Texas take on Ken Burns's Jazz -- Swinging through Texas on a Scottish air -- The birth of western swing -- The inventor of jazz revisited : untangling the legacy of Jelly Roll Morton and Alan Lomax -- Discographies and Texan jazz -- San Marcos in jazz history.…”
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Groovin' high : the life of Dizzy Gillespie by Shipton, Alyn

Table of Contents: “…Preface; 1 The Boy from Cheraw; 2 Philadelphia and the First Bands; 3 Teddy Hill and Edgar Hayes; 4 The First Records; 5 Cab Calloway and the Dawn of Bebop; 6 The Calloway Recordings; 7 Horn for Hire; 8 From Earl Hines to 52nd Street; 9 Billy Eckstine; 10 Bird, Big Band, and Berg's; 11 1945-The Records; 12 The Big Band, 1946 -- 50; 13 The Big Band Records; 14 Dee Gee, Paris, and Massey Hall; 15 International Soloist; 16 The 1950s Big Bands; 17 Gillespiana; 18 Dizzy for President; 19 Giant of Jazz; 20 Old Man Time; Notes; Bibliography; Index…”
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Bird : the life and music of Charlie Parker by Haddix, Chuck

Table of Contents: “…s Tune""; ""3 Hootie Blues""; ""4 Bebop""; ""5 Relaxing at Camarillo""; ""6 Dewey Square""; ""7 Parkerâ€?…”
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Doc : the story of a Birmingham jazz man by Adams, Frank, 1928-2014, Mathews, Burgin

Table of Contents: “…Family -- The church -- Schoolboy -- "Fess" -- Outer space -- First gigs and Birmingham clubs -- Summers on the road -- Howard -- Bounce, bebop, blues, and swing -- Teacher -- Bandleader -- Friends and mentors -- Building a family, making ends meet -- The movement -- Keeping the spirit -- "Doc."…”
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Jazz makers : vanguards of sound by Shipton, Alyn

Table of Contents: “…The pioneers: Scott Joplin ; Jelly Roll Morton ; King Oliver ; Louis Armstrong ; Sidney Bechet ; Bix Beiderbecke ; Bessie Smith ; More pioneers to remember -- Swing bands and soloists: Fletcher Henderson ; Duke Ellington ; Cab Calloway ; Benny Goodman ; Artie Shaw ; Jimmy and Tommy Dorsey ; Count Basie ; Ella Fitzgerald ; Billie Holiday ; Lester Young ; Coleman Hawkins ; More swing bandleaders and soloists to remember -- The piano giants: Albert Ammons ; Fats Waller ; Earl "Fatha" Hines ; Mary Lou Williams ; Teddy Wilson ; Art Tatum ; Oscar Peterson ; More piano giants to remember -- Birth of bebop, the modern jazz revolution: Dizzy Gillespie ; Charlie Parker ; Miles Davis ; Bud Powell ; Thelonious Monk ; Art Blakey ; Charles Mingus ; Sarah Vaughan ; More modern jazz pioneers to remember -- Cool jazz, hard bop, and fusion: John Coltrane ; Sonny Rollins ; Gerry Mulligan ; Stan Getz ; Ornette Coleman ; Bill Evans ; Herbie Hancock ; Chick Corea ; John McLaughlin ; Anthony Braxton ; More cool, hard bop and fusion players to remember -- A century of jazz: David Murray ; Michael Brecker ; Jan Garbarek ; Wynton Marsalis ; Geri Allen ; Joshua Redman ; More contemporary jazz players to remember.…”
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Why jazz happened by Myers, Marc, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Record giants blink -- DJs, promoters, and bebop -- G.I. Bill and cool -- Speed war, tape, and solos -- Suburbia and West Coast jazz -- BMI, R & B, and hard bop -- Bias, Africa, and spiritual jazz -- Invasion and jazz-pop -- Alienation and the avant-garde -- Lights, volume, and fusion -- Jazz hangs on.…”
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Why jazz happened by Myers, Marc, 1956-

Table of Contents: “…Record giants blink -- DJs, promoters, and bebop -- G.I. Bill and cool -- Speed war, tape, and solos -- Suburbia and West Coast jazz -- BMI, R & B, and hard bop -- Bias, Africa, and spiritual jazz -- Invasion and jazz-pop -- Alienation and the avant-garde -- Lights, volume, and fusion -- Jazz hangs on.…”
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Jazz : the basics by Meeder, Christopher

Table of Contents: “…Fundamentals -- Pre-jazz -- Early jazz recordings -- Louis Armstrong -- The 1920s -- The swing era, part I : big bands -- The swing era, part II : small groups and soloists -- Bebop and the moldy figs -- Charlie Parker -- Thelonious Monk -- The 1950s : the beginning of jazz -- Miles Davis -- Avant-garde jazz of the 1950s and early 1960s -- John Coltrane -- The 1960s, part I : inside -- The 1960s, part II : free jazz -- The 1960s, part III : Chicago -- Postbop pianists -- Fusion -- The 1980s and new conservatism -- The genre busters -- Lately.…”
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Hip hop's amnesia : from blues and the black women's club movement to rap and the hip hop movement by Rabaka, Reiland, 1972-

Table of Contents: “…: classic blues queens and the black women's club movement, neo-soul sistas and the hip hop women's movement -- Jazzmatazz : from classic jazz and bebop to jazz rap and hip hop -- "If we must die!" …”
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Why jazz? : a concise guide by Whitehead, Kevin

Table of Contents: “…JAZZ FROM ITS ORIGINS TO 1940 Roots, Early Jazz, the Swing Era; 3. JAZZ 1940-1960 Bebop, Cool, Hard Bop; 4. JAZZ 1960-1980 The Avant-Garde and Its Aftermath; 5. …”
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What is this thing called jazz? : African American musicians as artists, critics, and activists by Porter, Eric (Eric C.)

Table of Contents: “…A marvel of paradox : jazz and African American modernity -- Dizzy atmosphere : the challenge of bebop -- Passions of a man : the poetics and politics of Charles Mingus -- Straight ahead : Abbey Lincoln and the challenge of jazz singing -- Practicing "creative music" : the black arts imperative in the jazz community -- Writing "creative music" : theorizing the art and politics of improvisation -- The majesty of the blues : Wynton Marsalis's jazz canon.…”
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Global culture/individual identity : searching for home in the cultural supermarket by Mathews, Gordon

Table of Contents: “…On the cultural identities of kotoists, calligraphers, bebop pianists, and punk rockers -- 3. What in the world is American? …”
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Cross-rhythms : jazz aesthetics in African-American literature by Omry, Keren

Table of Contents: “…Blues notes : a discourse of race in the poetry of Langston Hughes, in Their eyes were watching God, by Zora Neale Hurston, and in Corregidora, by Gayl Jones -- Bebop spoken here : performativity in Ralph Ellison, James Baldwin, and Toni Morrison -- Modes of experience : modal jazz and the authority of experience in Ishmael Reed's Mumbo jumbo, Toni Morrison's The bluest eye and Song of Solomon -- Free jazz : postracialism and collectivity in Toni Morrison's 'Recitatif' and Paradise.…”
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David Baker : a legacy in music by Herzig, Monika, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…Indiana Avenue and Crispus Attucks High School / Lissa May -- A star is born / Monika Herzig -- New beginnings / Monika Herzig and Nathan Davis -- Defining jazz education / JB Dyas -- 21st century bebop / Monika Herzig and Brent Wallarab -- The composer / David Ward-Steinman -- David Baker and the Smithsonian : a personal perspective / John Edward Hasse -- Social engagement / Willard Jenkins -- Coda / Monika Herzig.…”
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The Jazz Scene : an Informal History from New Orleans to 1990. by Stokes, W. Royal

Table of Contents: “…The Big Bands; 6. California; 7. Post Bebop Developments; 8. Singers; 9. Jazz Around the World; 10. …”
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Jazz Improvisation Basic Training For All Treble Clef Readers. by Waugh, John

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Half-title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Dedication -- Foreword -- Contents -- Introduction -- Notes on Effective Practice -- Fundamentals -- A Brief Outline of Basic Terminology -- Chapter 1 The Major Scale -- Chapter 2 Modes of the Major Scale -- Chapter 3 II-V-I and the Cycle of 4ths -- Chapter 4 The Blues -- Chapter 5 Triads -- Chapter 6 Bebop Scales and Chromaticism -- Now What?! -- Summary -- Scale Reference Pages -- Index of Key Words…”
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The music and life of Theodore "Fats" Navarro : infatuation by Petersen, Leif Bo, 1942-

Table of Contents: “…Solos -- Fats Blows -- Bebop Boy -- Recordings, Second Half of 1946 -- Climbing up the Scene -- Recordings, 1947 -- Interlude -- The Romance of Junk -- Chorus 4. …”
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Reckoning day : race, place, and the atom bomb in postwar America by Foertsch, Jacqueline, 1964-

Table of Contents: “…"Extraordinarily Convenient Neighbors" : Servant-Savior-Savants in White-Authored Post-Nuclear Novels -- "Tomorrow's Children" : Interracial Conflict and Resolution in Atomic-Era Science Fiction and Afro-Futurism -- Sidebar : Covering the Bomb in the African American Press -- Against the "Starless Midnight of Racism and War" : African American Intellectuals and the Anti-Nuclear Agenda -- Last Man Standing : Sex and Survival in the Interracial Apocalyptic -- Conclusion: "Don't Drop It, Stop It, Bebop It" : Some Final Notes on Race, Place, and the Atom Bomb in Postwar America.…”
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Who killed Hammarskjold? : the UN, the cold War and White Supremacy in Africa by Williams, Susan

Table of Contents: “…"Bebop-a-lula" Stockholm, 2009 -- The Congo, 1960 -- "A third world war". …”
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Tap Dancing America : a Cultural History. by Hill, Constance Valis

Table of Contents: “…Contents; Foreword; Preface; 1 TRICKSTER GODS AND RAPPAREES (16501900); 2 BUCK-AND-WING (TURN OF THE CENTURY); 3 OVER-THE-TOP AND IN-THE-TRENCHES (TEENS); 4 SIMPLY FULL OF JAZZ (TWENTIES); 5 SWING TIME (THIRTIES); 6 JUMPIN' JIVE (FORTIES); 7 BEAT, BEBOP, BIRTH OF THE COOL (FIFTIES); 8 TAP HAPPENINGS (SIXTIES); 9 NOSTALGIA, AND ALL THAT TAP (SEVENTIES); 10 BLACK AND BLUE (EIGHTIES); 11 NOISE AND FUNK (NINETIES); 12 HOOFING IN HEELS (MILLENNIUM); Notes; Glossary; Select Bibliography; Index.…”
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Dubwise : reasoning from the reggae underground by Walker, Klive, 1953-

Table of Contents: “…Table of Contents; Preface; Introduction; X-Ray Dub, poem; Roots Souljah: Reflections on Bob Marley's Life and Art; Rain a Fall, Dutty Tuff : The Relationship between Louise Bennett's Mento Verse and Bob Marley's Reggae Poetry; Reggae Sistas' Stories : The Women of Roots Reggae; Blue Beat, Nyabinghi, Bebop : The Jamaican Roots of Ska; Eastern Standard Time : Don Drummond, the Skatalites, and the International Legacy of Ska and Jamaican Jazz; One-Drop Dubs the Maple Leaf : The Story of Reggae in Canada; Dub Fire : Reggae in the Caribbean Diaspora.…”
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I Know What I Know : the Music Of Charles Mingus.

Table of Contents: “…Cover -- Contents -- Foreword -- A Note from Sue Graham Mingus -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Central Avenue Swing -- New York and the Bebop Revolution -- Breaking into Freedom -- The Poetic Blues of Mingus -- Triumph: Columbia Records, 1959 -- Into the Past, Into the Future -- Resurgence: The Impulse Albums -- The 1964 Tour -- Falling Away -- A Slow Climb -- Denouement -- Coda -- Bibliography -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.…”
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Sophisticated giant : the life and legacy of Dexter Gordon by Gordon, Maxine

Table of Contents: “…The Khalif of Valby; 16. Homecoming; 17. Bebop at Work; 18. Round Midnight; 19. A Night at the Oscars; 20. …”
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On race and medicine : insider perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Bebop : an intro / Richard Garcia -- No accident / Brian D. …”
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On race and medicine : insider perspectives

Table of Contents: “…Bebop : an intro / Richard Garcia -- No accident / Brian D. …”
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Heaven was Detroit : from jazz to hip-hop and beyond

Table of Contents: “…Detroıt Jazz; A Top-Down Motown Bebop Pubescence: Twelve Takes; Bebop in Detroit: Nights at the Blue Bird Inn; The Donald Byrd-Pepper Adams Quintet: Jazz in Detroit, 1958-61; Teddy Harris: A Jazz Man in Motown; Rebirth of Tribe; Strata Records; Roy Brooks: Detroit Downbeat; Musician Interrupted: Faruq Z. …”
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Fashion and jazz : dress, identity and subcultural improvisation by McClendon, Alphonso

Table of Contents: “…Swing musicSwing era fashion; Bebop music; Bebop era fashion; Modern jazz: Music and fashion; Conclusion; 3 A NARRATIVE OF JAZZ MODERNITY; Postmodern identity in jazz; Qualities of modernism in jazz; Modern ideals in fashion; Visually modern; Communicating modernity; Modern practices of jazz performers; Conclusion; 4 ASSESSING ELITISM AND BRANDING IN JAZZ; Societal opposition to jazz; An elite identity; Male dress conformity; Evolution of feminine attraction; Signifying class distinction; Exhibiting an eccentric manner; Branding jazz in advertising; Classic marketing of jazz.…”
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Justice as Improvisation : the Law of the Extempore. by Ramshaw, Sara

Table of Contents: “…Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: the law of the extempore; 2 The rise and reform of the New York City cabaret laws; 3 Deconstructive legal improvisation; The aporia of singularity; The aporia of originality; The aporia of performative immediacy; The aporia of the extempore; 4 The 'wildness' of jazz improvisation; 'Wild' origins; Bebop's sonic and social wildness; lmprovisation, wildness, invention; 5 Demystifying improvisation; Improvisation and the 'jazz form'; Tradition of improvisation; Collective individuality.…”
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Jazz internationalism : literary Afro-modernism and the cultural politics of black music by Lowney, John, 1957-

Table of Contents: “…: Ann Petry, The Street, and the Gender Politics of World War II Jazz -- 4 "Cultural Exchange": Cold War Jazz and the Political Aesthetics of Langston Hughes's Long Poems -- 5 "A Silent Beat in Between the Drums": Bebop, Post-Bop, and the Black Beat Poetics of Bob Kaufman -- Conclusion "A New Kind of Music": Paule Marshall, The Fisher King, and the Dissonance of Diaspora -- Notes -- Works Cited -- Index.…”
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