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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 picture of American society at a pivotal time, and a perspective on music as a cultural force.
- Format: TradePaperback
- Author: Stowe, David W.
- ISBN: 9780674858268
- Condition: Used
- Dimensions: 8.88 x 0.88
- Number Of Pages: 299
- Publication Year: 1996