Ebook: Bop apocalypse: jazz, race, the beats, and drugs

"With an intricate storyline that unites engaging characters and themes and reads like a novel, Bop Apocalypse details the rise of early drug culture in America by weaving together the disparate elements that formed this new and revolutionary segment of the American social fabric."--Publisher description.;Red-dirt marijuana -- Stompin' at the Savoy -- The paranoid spokesman -- Two hits of that stuff, and Jack, you'd be mellow -- The white mayor of Harlem -- Pops -- The misdo gets meanor and meanor (jailhousely speaking) -- The great tenor solo in the shoeshine jukebox -- You mean there's something like this in the world? -- Once known, never forgotten -- The shot heard 'round the world -- You're buzzing, baby -- And the hippos were boiled in their tanks -- Parker's mood -- A ghost in daylight on a crowded street -- Ain't nobody's business if I do -- The sacralization of the mundane -- That was our badge -- Blues for a junkie whore -- Wild form, man, wild form ... -- Trust the Germans to concoct some really evil shit -- Holy the bop apocalypse! -- 'Round midnight -- Why are all these young boys being hanged in limestone caves, Bill? -- The empirical soul of jazz -- Peyote solidities of halls -- A readily recognizable stigmata -- Goodbye pork pie hat -- It's all a part of their poetic-no, their metaphysical-education -- Let Lady live -- The end of the beginning : an epilogue.