Bebop
The birth of bebop in the early 1940s was the point at which jazz consciously became "art" music, as opposed to music to accompany dancing and socialising. Named after the scat-like sound of the compositions by Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie and Thelonious Monk, bebop was intentionally complex music, often performed at dizzying speeds, and decidedly intellectual, in many ways as a reaction to the danceable genres like 'swing'. By rejecting the role of simply being ‘entertainers’, bebop marked a new phase in the rising of black consciousness in the USA, with many of the players becoming actively involved in the civil rights movement. Some of the earliest leading bebop players included the aforementioned Parker, Gillespie, and Monk, as well as Bud Powell, Max Roach, Kenny Clark, and Miles Davis. Bebop evolved into hard bop in the 1950s.
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