Word: bopping
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Bebop is also a way of life (slogan: "be hip, be sharp, be bop!"). Its feverish practitioners like to wear berets, goatees and green-tinted horn-rimmed glasses, talk about their "interesting new sounds." The high priest is Dizzy, 30, a South Carolina boy whose rapid-fire, scattershot talk has about the same pace-and content-as his music. Whether he, an obscure Manhattan pianist named Thelonius Monk or Saxophonist Charlie ("Yardbird") Parker invented bebop is a matter of learned dispute among beboppers...
...Band Leader Lionel Hampton announced the names of the selections he would play at a Carnegie Hall concert: Be-Bop, Re-Bop, Oo-Bop, Zoo-Bop, Ee-Oo-Bop and The Crystal Suite...
Recruited almost entirely from the University Band, the new unit will play as "Bop Herman and his Orchestra," at least until a University charter permits the group the name "Harvardians...
Choruses of Dixie sprung up at the drop of a northern accent. Dixie, in fact, won out over Hey-bop-a-re-bop as the most popular song of the weekend. At the football game, its initial chords elicited correct posture even in the Negro stands behind the end zone. At the pregame rally, Dixie brought every Southerner to his feet. The Cavalier football squad remained seated...
...Square Bop. Least known of radio's troubadours is Dick Farney, 25, a dark-eyed Brazilian baritone whose greatest claim to fame is his invention of the phrase "square bop" (a bad accompanist with a surface sense of rhythm, who confuses crooners...