Mark Anthony Neal, “Introduction”

Steve Spence

Updated: 26 February 2016

2012-2024

“Toward a Black Public: Movement, Markets, and Moderns”

These slides offer audiovisual supplements to Neal's text and our reading guide.

Minton's Playhouse

Neal opens the chapter with an epigraph from novelist (and jazz aficionado) Ralph Ellison. Ellison is discussing the Harlem club called Minton's Playhouse, which is legendary in music history as a birthplace of Bebop.

The Lindy Hop, discussed in Neal (22) and filmed for Hellzapoppin (H.C. Potter 1941)

Charlie Parker, one of the greats of New York's 1940s Bebop scene