Bebop Research Paper

Comparison of Swing and Bop Jazz Jazz music is one of the youngest genres of music that is played in this day and age. This genre of jazz encompasses several different styles such as bebop and swing. Both styles are different but they are still classified as jazz. Swing music is the older of the two styles jazz. Swing became very popular in the 1930’s to the mid 1940’s. Ironically, bebop’s inception came out from creative spins on the already popular swing music. Swing usually consisted of big bands or orchestras with many people in them, bebop usually consisted of small improvisation groups. Swing, although radically different than most music during this time still had a lot more structure than bebop music. Since the two styles sound similar a good way to understand is that swing usually is the better style to dance to and bebop is better to listen to then to dance to it. Not that this is completely true in all cases but many will look at these two similar styles of music in this way. Swing music’s melodies are usually much like blues rhythm. The way swing music it usually performed gives the music a driving feeling while also …show more content…
The singers of bebop would make up sounds and pharses that sound like the music that the instruments were making. For example, ba ba dot ba ba dot ba ba ba ba dew dot da dew dot dew da da da. This particular scat is what the bass group sang in high school showstopper group. Scat can also be real words that are mixed with these types of words. In comparison to swing the vocalists tone while performing needed to be more deep and soulful, similar to its predecessor blues. Bebop tone when being sung was usually a lot more free flowing and with a lot of enthusiasm and joy behind it. Not to say that swing couldn’t be sung in a joyful tone but that the singing styles often differ in