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'Wales Bird: Dylan Thomas and Charlie Parker'

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Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration, Pages: 151 - 164

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This chapter, drawing on evidence from a range of writers such as Kenneth Rexroth, Amiri Baraka and Al Young, explores the process by which Dylan Thomas and saxophonist Charlie Parker were mythologized in the 1950s. Both Parker and Thomas were imagined to be, and to some extent cultivated images of...

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Published in: Dylan Thomas: A Centenary Celebration
Published: London Bloomsbury 2014
Online Access: http://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/dylan-thomas-9781472903099/
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