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Real Men Don''t Sing - Crooning in American Culture

English · Hardback

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Informationen zum Autor Allison McCracken is Associate Professor of American Studies at DePaul University. Klappentext Allison McCracken charts the rise and fall of crooners between 1925 and 1934, showing how the backlash against crooners' perceived sexual and gender deviance created stylistically masculine norms for white male pop singers that continue to exist today.Allison McCracken charts the rise and fall of crooners between 1925 and 1934, showing how the backlash against crooners' perceived sexual and gender deviance created stylistically masculine norms for white male pop singers that continue to exist today. Inhaltsverzeichnis Acknowledgments  ix Introduction  1 1. Putting Over a Song: Crooning, Performance, and Audience in the Acoustic Era, 1880–1920  37 2. Crooning Goes Electric: Microphone Crooning and the Invention of the Intimate Singing Aesthetic, 1921–1928  74 3. Falling in Love with a Voice: Rudy Vallée and His First Radio Fans, 1928  126 4. "The Mouth of the Machine": The Creation of the Crooning Idol, 1929  160 5. "A Supine Sinking into the Primeval Ooze": Crooning and Its Discontents, 1929–1933  208 6. "The Kind of Natural That Worked": The Crooner Redefined, 1932–1934 (and Beyond)  264 Conclusion  311 Notes  333 Bibliography  375 Index  411

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Authors Allison McCracken
Publisher Duke University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 30.09.2015
 
EAN 9780822359173
ISBN 978-0-8223-5917-3
No. of pages 448
Series Refiguring American Music
Refiguring American Music
Subject Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries

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