In GBN's "A Year of Good Black News" Page-A-Day Calendar" for 2022, we explore words and phrases in a category we call "Lemme Break It Down." Today's entry takes a look at "bop" -- a term used today for a song with a good groove -- but was first used in the early 1940s to describe an exciting, new intricate form of jazz.
Sources:
https://amzn.to/3Kijdae (To Be or Not To Bop by Dizzy Gillespie)
https://www.npr.org/2016/02/18/467259732/a-dive-into-jazz-slang-you-dig
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