Pearl Harbor Jazz : Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s /

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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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Townsend, Peter, 1948- (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
Colección:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Temas:
Jazz > Social aspects.
Jazz.
MUSIC > Genres & Styles > Jazz.
Jazz > 1941-1950 > Histoire et critique.
Jazz > Social aspects > United States.
Jazz > 1941-1950 > History and criticism.
United States.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Electronic books.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
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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.
Descripción Física:1 online resource.
ISBN:9781604731477

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