Pynchon and Music

[robinlandseadel at comcast.net]

One of my favorite music references in Pynchon has to be the sodium amytal scene from Gravity's Rainbow, where the narrator notes Charlie Parker's moment of rocketing into the musical stratosphere of "Ko-Ko" as Slothrop chased his "harp" through the sewers of Harlem.

http://www.cmgworldwide.com/music/parker/about/biography.html
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From: "Ya Sam" <takoitov at hotmail.com>
> Another question to the P-listers in the know. I realise that many specific 
> references to American (British?) music of 1940s, 1950s, 1960s, 1970s etc. 
> are simply lost to me, because I am only aware of the most popular and 
> pretty obvious samples (I even didn't know about the lollypop song before 
> reading GR). So I would be grateful if you could advise me a "must music 
> package" for his novels (especially Vineland and GR) in terms of performers, 
> groups, albums, songs etc. I am not a complete ignoramus, (Sinatra I know 
> :-) but I do realise that I need to do some listening in my spare time to 
> appreciate more Pynchon's texts. Thanks in advance.
> 
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