| Description |
xiv, 412 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Red-dirt marijuana -- Stompin' at the Savoy -- The paranoid spokesman -- Two hits of that stuff, and Jack, you'd be mellow -- The white mayor of Harlem -- Pops -- The misdo gets meanor and meanor (jailhousely speaking) -- The great tenor solo in the shoeshine jukebox -- You mean there's something like this in the world? -- Once known, never forgotten -- The shot heard 'round the world -- You're buzzing, baby -- And the hippos were boiled in their tanks -- Parker's mood -- A ghost in daylight on a crowded street -- Ain't nobody's business if I do -- The sacralization of the mundane -- That was our badge -- Blues for a junkie whore -- Wild form, man, wild form... -- Trust the Germans to concoct some really evil shit -- Holy the bop apocalypse! -- 'Round midnight -- Why are all these young boys being hanged in limestone caves, Bill? -- The empirical soul of jazz -- Peyote solidities of halls -- A readily recognizable stigmata -- Goodbye pork pie hat -- It's all a part of their poetic-no, their metaphysical-education -- Let Lady live -- The end of the beginning : an epilogue. |
| Subject |
Jazz -- History and criticism.
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Jazz musicians -- United States.
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Music and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Beats (Persons)
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Drugs -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
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Beat generation. (OCoLC)fst00829327
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Drugs -- Social aspects.
(OCoLC)fst00898917
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Jazz. (OCoLC)fst00982165
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Jazz musicians. (OCoLC)fst00982205
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Music and race. (OCoLC)fst01030486
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United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
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| Chronological Term |
1900-1999
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
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History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Torgoff, Martin, author. Bop apocalypse Boston : Da Capo Press, 2016 9780306824760 (DLC) 2016016896 |
| ISBN |
9780306824753 (hardcover) |
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0306824752 (hardcover) |
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9780306824760 (e-book) |
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