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The bebop revolution in words and music / edited by Dave Oliphant ; with an introduction by Richard Lawn.

Oliphant, Dave.; Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
1994
781.655 B387
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Title
The bebop revolution in words and music / edited by Dave Oliphant ; with an introduction by Richard Lawn.
ISBN
0879591315
Imprint
[Austin, Tex.] : Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center, The University of Texas at Austin, c1994.
Language
English
Description
227 p. : ill., music, ports. ; 26 cm.
Call Number
781.655 B387
System Control No.
(OCoLC)30105038
Note
Papers and discussion from a symposium held in conjunction with an exhibition, with a description of the exhibition.
"On display from 20 April through 18 September 1992, 'The Bebop Revolution in Words and Music' was ... mounted by the Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center to showcase the wealth of jazz-related materials in its archive of ... Ross Russell."--p. 27.
"Originally published as Vol. 24, Nos. 1/2 of The Library Chronicle of The University of Texas at Austin"--verso t.p.
Bibliography, etc. Note
Includes bibliographical references.
Formatted Contents Note
Symposium keynote address / Ross Russell
The bebop revolution in words and music : an exhibition
Charlie Parker : an overview / Gary Giddins
The dial recordings of Charlie Parker / Edward Komara
The bop aesthetic and Black intellectual tradition / Lorenzo Thomas
Langston Hughes as bop ethnographer in "Trumpet player : 52nd Street" / Nicholas M. Evans
A short stay in the sun : the reception of bebop, 1944-1950 / Bernard Gendron
"Donna Lee" and the ironies of bebop / Douglass Parker
The bebop tradition in South America / José Hosliasson.
Added Author
Oliphant, Dave.
Added Corporate Author
Harry Ransom Humanities Research Center.
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