Critical Ethnic Studies

Dreaming As a Radical Act: Bebop Demands We Listen Again

Dreaming As a Radical Act: Bebop Demands We Listen Again

Dreams in Double Time explores how bebop created new possibilities for marginalized people in the early 20th century. Bebop demands we listen again.

‘Dreams in Double Time’: When Bebop Counter-Punched Racist Violence

‘Dreams in Double Time’: When Bebop Counter-Punched Racist Violence

In this excerpt from Jonathan Leal’s study of Black American jazz, Dreams in Double Time, bebop gives the music a “new accent” and the outsider citizenry a “new language” for counter-punching rebellion.