Reading Texts
 

"The Cult of Bebop"
 
 
 

ISSUES:
 

JAZZ

CULTURE

RACE

Bakara, Amiri (Jones, LeRoi), 'Jazz and the white critic', Down Beat, August 15, 1963, pp. 16-17, 34; repreinted in LeRoi Jones, Black Music, Quill, New York, 1967, pp 11-20.
 

Bakara, Amiri  ‘Diz’, African American Review, Volume 29, Number 2, 1995.

Becker, Howard S., 'The Professional Dance Musician and His Audience', Journal of Sociology, 57, 1951-2, pp 136-44.

Belair, Felix Jr., "United States Has Secret Sonic Weapon - Jazz," New York Times, Novermber 6, 1955, pp.1, 42.

Belgrad, Daniel, The culture of spontaneity : improvisation and the arts in postwar America,University of Chicago Press, Chicago, 1998.

DeVeaux, Scott, The birth of bebop : a social and musical history: University of California Press, Berkeley, 1997.

Ellison, Ralph, cited in The birth of bebop.
 

Fabre, Geneviève &  O'Meally, Robert (ed.s), History and memory in African-American culture, Oxford University Press, New York, 1994. 
 

Harris, Pat, ‘Nothing But Bop? ‘Stupid,’ Says Miles’.
Interview reprinted: Down Beat, July, 1994.
 

Peretti, Burton W.,The creation of jazz : music, race, and culture in urban America, University of Illinois Press, Urbana, 1992.
 

Walser, Robert (ed.) Keeping time : readings in jazz history (New York : Oxford University Press) 1999.
 

White, Shane & White, Graham, White, Shane & White, Graham, Stylin': African American Expressive Culture from its Beginnings to the Zoot Suit, Cornell University Press, Ithaca. 1998.