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Author Leal, Jonathan, 1989- author.

Title Dreams in double time : on race, freedom, and bebop / Jonathan Leal
Published Durham : Duke University Press, 2023

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Description 1 online resource (xiii, 238 pages) : illustrations
Series Refiguring American music
Refiguring American music.
Contents After-hours -- Layered time -- Quartered notes -- Among others
Summary "Dreams in Double Time examines how bebop, a musical genre developed by Black experimentalists in the 1940s, was especially generative for nonwhite listeners in the years following World War II. To construct this cultural history of jazz, Jonathan Leal links three (audio)biographical narratives: James T. Araki, a Nisei multi-instrumentalist and scholar credited with helping introduce bebop to Japan during the Allied Occupation; Raúl R. Salinas, a Mexican American poet, jazz critic, and activist working against the American criminal justice system who helped document East Austin's rich music histories; and Harold Wing, an Afro-Chinese American drummer, pianist, and songwriter who performed with bebop pioneers before eventually working as a public servant in Newark's City Hall in response to the uprisings of the late sixties. The book begins with a cultural history of the emergence of bebop in Harlem and then dedicates a chapter to each of these figures, contextualizing their stories and building connections between their stories. Grounded in musical practice, relational study, and personal narrative, Dreams in Double Time offers a powerful and poetic cultural history of communal creativities in the postwar years"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Description based on print version record
Subject Araki, James T.
Raúlrsalinas, 1934-2008.
Wing, Harold.
Raúlrsalinas, 1934-2008
Jazz -- History and criticism
Jazz -- Japan -- History and criticism
Bop (Music) -- History and criticism
Jazz -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Music and race -- United States -- History -- 20th century
MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
Bop (Music)
Intellectual life
Jazz
Jazz -- Social aspects
Music and race
Harlem (New York, N.Y.) -- Intellectual life -- 20th century
Japan
New York (State) -- New York -- Harlem
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022045888
ISBN 1478024585
9781478024583