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Article: Bebop: a case in point. (The African Matrix in Jazz Harmonic Practices.(Critical essay)
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- Black Music Research Journal
- Article date:
- March 22, 2005
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The literature on bebop is vast, from contemporaneous accounts such as that by Leonard Feather (1949) to Dizzy Gillespie's memoirs (1979), from detailed musicological and stylistic studies (Owens 1974, 1995) to postmodernist constructions of the jazz tradition from a choice-and-decision-oriented perspective (DeVeaux 1997). One sociopsychological description of the start of bebop has been to emphasize its rejection of commercialized jazz with its harmonic cliches, its Westernized tonal ideas, and the way of life it all symbolized. It is assumed that from this rejection originated most of the drive for trying a different path. Long before Malcolm X, the Black Panther ...