[Ads-l] Antedating of "Bop" (Music)

[Shapiro, Fred]

bop (OED, bop n.2, 1948)

1947 St. Louis Post-Dispatch 8 Oct. 40/4 (ProQuest)  MERCER ELLINGTON, Duke's son, comes up with one of the best big-band bop sides of the year.

1947 Niles (Mich.) Daily Star 9 Dec. 4/3 (Newspapers.com) This is the type of music known variously to jazz addicts as "be-bop," "re-bop" or just plain "bop."

Fred Shapiro



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