Real men don't sing : crooning in American culture /
The crooner Rudy Vale's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity. Although Valle and other crooners reflected the gender fluidity of late-1920s popular culture, their...
Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2015.
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Colección: | Refiguring American music.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Putting over a song : crooning, performance, and audience in the acoustic era, 1880-1920
- Crooning goes electric : microphone crooning and the invention of the intimate singing aesthetic, 1921-1928
- Falling in love with a voice: Rudy Vallée and his first radio fans, 1928
- "The mouth of the machine" : the creation of the crooning idol, 1929
- "A supine sinking into the primeval ooze" : crooning and its discontents, 1929-1933
- "The kind of natural that worked? : the crooner redefined, 1932-1934 (and beyond).