Swing Changes: Big-band Jazz in New Deal America

Swing Changes: Big-band Jazz in New Deal America

by David W Stowe (Author)

Synopsis

This text examines New Deal America through its music, showing how the contradictions and tensions that occurred within swing - over race, politics, its own cultural status, the role of women - mirrored those that existed in the larger everyday society.

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Format: Paperback
Pages: 336
Edition: New edition
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Published: 30 Sep 1996

ISBN 10: 0674858263
ISBN 13: 9780674858268