Swing Changes: Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America

ISBN-13: 9780674858268 / Angielski / Miękka / 1996 / 299 str.

David W. Stowe

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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.