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The Birth of Bebop

The Birth of Bebop A Social and Musical History

Main Market Ed.

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Publisher's Synopsis

Scott DeVeaux traces the birth of bebop, which developed as a musical style in the post-war United States against the backdrop of the civil rights movement in the 1950s.

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Picador

Picador

Picador publishes outstanding international writing, fiction and non-fiction, in both hardback and paperback, and has numerous prize winners on its list. Picador has established a reputation for literary fiction with a broad commercial appeal, groundbreaking non-fiction, (particularly, reportage, literary biography and memoir) and a formidable poetry list, which has consistently won many of the major prizes.

Book information

ISBN: 9780330375542
Publisher: Macmillan
Imprint: Picador
Pub date:
Edition: Main Market Ed.
DEWEY: 781.655
DEWEY edition: 21
Language: English
Number of pages: 572
Weight: 400g
Height: 197mm
Width: 130mm
Spine width: 36mm

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