Swingin' the Dream

Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture

Lewis A. Erenberg (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

344 Seiten

1999
University of Chicago Press (Verlag)
978-0-226-21517-4 (ISBN)

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Exploring 1930s swing bands, this book looks at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the American nation and has kept people dancing ever since. Studying the big band era, Lewis A. Erenberg places the music within a larger context and makes his case for its importance.

During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics and the music business. This book explores that world, looking at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has kept people dancing ever since. The text is a study of the big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the 1930s; Lewis A. Erenberg places the music within a larger context and makes his case for its importance.

Lewis A. Erenberg is professor of history at Loyola University of Chicago.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	27.10.1999
Sprache	englisch
Maße	15 x 23 mm
Gewicht	510 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Musik ► Jazz / Blues
	Geschichte ► Allgemeine Geschichte ► 1918 bis 1945
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
ISBN-10	0-226-21517-2 / 0226215172
ISBN-13	978-0-226-21517-4 / 9780226215174
Zustand	Neuware