Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America
by David W. Stowe
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Author: David W. StoweEdition: Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 1996-10-01
ISBN: 0674858263
Number of pages: 336
Publisher: Harvard University Press
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- ISBN13: 9780674858268
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Summary of Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America
Bands were playing, people were dancing, the music business was booming. It was the big-band era, and swing was giving a new shape and sound to American culture. "Swing Changes" looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions and tensions within swing - over race, politics, its own cultural status, the role of women - mirrored those played out in the larger society. Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, magazines, recordings, photographs, literature and films, "Swing Changes" offers a picture of American society at a pivotal time, and a perspective on music as a cultural force.Instruments & Performers Books
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