Can someone please define bebop?

Question

Can someone please define bebop?

Answer 1

Any good swing music like the 60's is considered Be-bop.

Elvis, Bill Hailey, etc... It is a swing type of dance like old-school .

Remember the proms and the long skirts and saturday night and d**k Clark show ?  That is be-bop.

Answer 2

Bop was developed by jazz musicians in the 1940s.  It was revolutionary because it made rhythm primary instead of melody, it specifically used rhythm as the basis for extended improvisations.

Answer 3

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bebop