As the Beat movement was getting started, the musical styling’s of Bebop Jazz was already robust especially in big cities like New York. Bebop Jazz started coming out heavily in the 1940’s and was played in every jazz club across the nation. Bebop was a groundbreaking style of jazz and many well-known musicians like Dizzy Gillespie, Charlie Parker, Max Roach and Miles Davis were helping promote the new style. While researching famous Bebop musicians, I only came across African American individuals of both sexes. I was really curious as to why this was and I finally found the answer. Jazz originated from New Orleans Louisiana. Many residents from New Orleans are African American and they helped spread jazz throughout the world. Once Bebop Jazz started coming to …show more content…
Many Beat Poets were considered to be early hippies and were known as hipsters. Beat Poets used words like “cats,” “square” and “dig” from Bebop Jazz. Even though Beat Poets took the rhythm, the beat, the repetition and the words from jazz, the music meant much more to them. It was a way of life because it helped them think out of the box. Jazz helped them be more creative when writing. It helped them realize they could go beyond what was normal and truly be themselves. They started to use the rhythm and the beat to write their works which made it flow to a beat. In his book Go, John Clellon Holmes wrote a passage that made everything clear. Holmes mentioned “In this modern jazz, they heard something rebel and nameless that spoke for them, and their lives knew a gospel for the first time. It was more than a music; it became an attitude toward life, a way of walking, a language and a costume; and these introverted kids... now felt somewhere at last” (Go). Bebop Jazz helped these poets in miraculous ways and it influenced their lives and even their