Bird, Diz and Max at Town Hall, 1945: Birth of a Revolution
Against The Current vol. 124

Crothers, Connie

http://www.solidarity-us.org/node/131
Date Written: 2006-09-01
Publisher: Against The Current
Year Published: 2006
Resource Type: Article
Cx Number: CX13280

Hip-hop had a musical parallel in the 1940s. It was the music now called be-bop, although it wasn't called be-bop then. It was "the new thing" or "the revolution in music."