Pearl Harbor jazz : change in popular music in the early 1940s /
This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak of World War II and by long-term changes in the music business, in popular taste and in America...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
Publicado: |
Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2007.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Sumario: | This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak of World War II and by long-term changes in the music business, in popular taste and in American society itself. It describes how the infrastructure of American music, the interdependent fields of recording, touring, live engagements, radio and the movies, was experiencing change in the conditions of wartime, and how this impacted upon musical styles, and hence upon the later history of popul. |
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Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (ix, 256 pages) |
Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index. |
ISBN: | 9781604731477 1604731478 |