Swing Changes - Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America

Informationen zum Autor David W. Stowe is Associate Professor of Writing, Rhetoric and American Cultures and director of American Studies at Michigan State University. Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, magazines, recordings, photographs, literature, and films, Stowe 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. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Understanding Swing 1. The Tempo of the Time Song of the Jitterbug New Venues! New Audiences 2. Between Conjure and Kapital The Big Bringdown As American as Baseball and Hotdogs We Are All Americans Just Rich Men's Sons 3. The Incorporation of Swing Anyone Can Lead a Dance Band Broadcasting Swing The Jukes Take Over Are Colored Bands Doomed? Passing in Hollywood 4. The Conscription of Swing Soldiers of Music The Theater of Race The Gender Front 5. Swing and Its Discontents Tension Music and Concertitis Smothering the Market Crewcut! Jarb! Swixibop Swing Redux 6. Cracks in the Coalition That Modern Malice Jazz Is America's Own Epilogue: Shall We Dance? Notes Index ...

Product details

• Authors: David W. Stowe, Stowe David W.
• Publisher: Harvard University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.10.1996
• EAN: 9780674858268
• ISBN: 978-0-674-85826-8
• No. of pages: 299
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries; Jazz, USA, Blues, Cultural Studies, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / General, 20th century history: c 1900 to c 2000, HISTORY / United States / 20th Century, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural & Social, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Jazz, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Blues, United States of America, USA, History of the Americas, Popular Music, c 1919 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), c 1918 to c 1939 (Inter-war period), Light Orchestral & Big Band Music