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Bebop drumming: A historical, technical, and coordinative approach

Binder, Eric

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Title
Bebop drumming: A historical, technical, and coordinative approach
Author(s)
Binder, Eric
Issue Date
2018
Director of Research (if dissertation) or Advisor (if thesis)
Spencer, Joel
Doctoral Committee Chair(s)
Spencer, Joel
Committee Member(s)
  • Flores, Ricardo
  • Gray, Larry
  • Lund, Erik
Department of Study
School of Music
Discipline
Music
Degree Granting Institution
University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
Degree Name
A.Mus.D. (doctoral)
Keyword(s)
  • Bebop
  • Drumming
  • Swing
  • Jazz
  • Shadow Wilson
  • Kenny Clarke
  • Max Roach
  • Roy Haynes
Language
en
Abstract
The Bebop era is arguably the most influential era in jazz history. Bebop vocabulary was an innovation which grew from Swing music and would eventually revolutionize the jazz language. The chromatic embellishments of the melodies, the intense and complex rhythmic vocabulary, the aggressive energy, the call-­and-­response conversation, and collective group improvisation are amongst the qualities musicians today still study and imitate. Based on these musical developments, the Bebop era was particularly important with regard to the development of jazz drumming style. The focus of this project is to survey and discuss the preeminent literature on Bebop drumming, and to compose content that will contribute constructively to this existing literature.
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Copyright 2018 Eric Binder

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