DIZZY GILLESPIE'S "The Cult of Bebop"


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"The Cult of Bebop"
 
 
 

ISSUES:
 

JAZZ

CULTURE

RACE
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

 

HISTORICAL CONTEXT



 
 

After decades of the Depression and World War II, America was settling back into peacetime.  The Cold War was beginning, however, and Harry Truman had succeeded as president.  There were many adjustments to be made with the return of servicemen complicating changes in domestic and professional life that had occurred during the war.

This was on the background of urbanisation and the second migration - of African Americans moving northwards during the early twentieth century.
 


PEOPLE & PLACES

TIMELINES


People & Places

  • Read Jon Andrew's article Memories of 52nd Street, in DownBeat, July, 1994.   Background on the emergence and life on the night club scene.  Details the development of stars, economic situation and job opportunity for musicians at the end of the Swing era. 
  • Explanations of jazz venues, such as Harlem, Montane's and 52nd Street, and people within New York and reasons for the citiy's rise as 'America's Jazz Capitol'.

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  • Further discussion of Paul Robeson
Timelines!! 
  • 'Pop History' sorted by year from the 1950s of key events in different fields.