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| Author/Contributor(s): |
Stowe, David W
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| Publisher: |
Harvard University Press
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| Date: |
10/01/1996
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| Binding: |
Paperback
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| Condition: |
NEW
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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 vibrant picture of American society at a pivotal time, and a new perspective on music as a cultural force.
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