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Bebop Play Themes

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In today's quarter projects I was able to discern an underlying theme of identity, what defines a person or a group of people and what differentiates them. Take bebop as an example, Much of early Jazz music had been adapted into the cultural mainstream where it lost its sense of identity losing touch with its African American roots. Bebop reclaimed the African American identity jazz had lost. It expressed black culture and was used to express the way they felt towards inequality and oppression. In a similar way, the playwright August Wilson expressed similar sentiments in his plays. He focused on experiences of racism and other cruelties such as poor conditions and money troubles. His plays focused on how to react to this and the identity crisis
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