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Beat meets Bop...Leland explained the convergence by (7)
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art, image, dope, clothes, celebrity, intellectual arrogance, rebel grace
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Charles Parker
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He was the son of an itinerant musician and dropped out of high school at 15, got married, and started using heroin.
His idea to raise his solos into the higher intervals of a songs chords freed him of the traditional melody and served as the foundation of bop. |
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dizzy gillespie
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As a young man he studied piano, trumpet and other instruments and got a job playing with famed bandleader Cab Calloway.
Already dissatisfied with “band” music he had a falling out with Calloway (brought to a head by stabbing him in the butt) and, out of necessity became a traveling musician. Met parker in Kansas city in 1940 |
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Thelonius Monk
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Monk was also born in 1917 in NYC and grew up learning piano from stride piano greats James P. Johnson and Willie “the Lion” Smith.
He started playing in traveling gospel acts but eventually returned to Harlem and started playing solo in clubs there. |
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BeBop
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The word “bebop” came from jazz musician’s vocalizing or singing instrumental lines with nonsense syllables (scat singing). Abrupt endings to this scat often had a long-short pattern at the end which was often vocalized as “rebop” or “bebop”.
Dizzy Gillespie was the first to actually use the term as part of the title of a tune he recorded in 1945. In 1945, The New Yorker said: Of all the ga y, uncommunicative secret-society terms that jazz has surrounded itself with, few are lumpier or more misleading than “bebop.” … it has become a free-floating, generic term (reflecting music) whose tight, rude sound implied something harsh, jerky, and unattractive.” |
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Creating a style based on the exacting specifications of bop has its limits:
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There’s only so far you can take the musical form
The language gets repetitious and old The image (aloofness and rejection) eventually doesn’t pay the bills The clothes get easier to stereotype and become the stuff of wannabes |
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1950s context of times
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Increased consumerism
Political repression McCarthy = witch hunts = execution of Rosenberg's Sexual contradictions Masturbation caused insanity premarital sex was immoral Half of all women were married by 19 only whores had sex before marriage |
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Kerouac once described Beat women as "girls who say nothing and wear black."
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This is simultaneously a negation of the role of nurturing suburban housewife, and a "cool" variant of it.
Bohemia provided an antidote to the gender stereotypes for women, but mostly in the expression of sexuality. They really wanted women to play traditional roles as girlfriends and wives. Group of guys who pointed out everything wrong with America, but never do you hear them talk about women other than that they use women Real hypocrisies over the beat scene…but hard to blame beats because this was their cultural context Easier to stop being a racist than to stop being a sexist…sexism is so ingrained in this culture |
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3 roles of women to the beats
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relegated to observed status, sexual surrogates, and at best a peripheral interest
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women of the beat generation defined in 4 ways
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1. the providers
2. muses (sexual tension needed) 3. writers 4. artists “In the 50s, if you were male, you could be a rebel. But if you were female your families had you locked up.” |
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Diane Di Prima
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Di Prima began writing as a child and by the age of 19 was corresponding with Ezra Pound and Kenneth Patchen
Her first book of poetry, This Kind of Bird Flies Backward was published in 1958 by Hettie Jones. Being some ten years younger than the male beats she would serve as a bridge between the Beats and the Hippies |
