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Swing Changes Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America
by Stowe, David W.
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- Comments: 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
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- ISBN-13: 9780674858251
- ISBN: 0674858255
- Publication Date: 1994
- Publisher: Harvard University Press
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[An] excellent achievement. [Stowe] has placed swing at center stage in jazz history, linked it to the New Deal, and helped make it worth the attention of historians who have too long ignored America's musical past.Stowe, David W. is the author of 'Swing Changes Big-Band Jazz in New Deal America', published 1994 under ISBN 9780674858251 and ISBN 0674858255.
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