Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America
Paperback
Publication Date: 01/10/1996
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 vibrant picture of American society at a pivotal time, and a new perspective on music as a cultural force.
- ISBN:
- 9780674858268
- 9780674858268
- Category:
- Jazz
- Format:
- Paperback
- Publication Date:
- 01-10-1996
- Language:
- English
- Publisher:
- Harvard University Press
- Country of origin:
- United States
- Pages:
- 299
- Dimensions (mm):
- 235x156x17mm
- Weight:
- 0.48kg
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Rock & Pop music
Cultural studies
History of the Americas
Light orchestral & big band music
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Music: styles & genres
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Jazz
Musical instruments & instrumental ensembles
20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000
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