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Swing, That Modern Sound /
It was for stage bands, for dancing, and for a jiving mood of letting go. Throughout the nation swing re-sounded with the spirit of good times. But this pop genre, for a decade America's favorite, arose during the worst of times, the Great Depression. From its peak in the 1930s until bebop, r &...
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| Format: | Electronic eBook |
| Language: | Inglés |
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Jackson :
University Press of Mississippi,
2001.
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| Series: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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| Online Access: | Texto completo |
| Summary: | It was for stage bands, for dancing, and for a jiving mood of letting go. Throughout the nation swing re-sounded with the spirit of good times. But this pop genre, for a decade America's favorite, arose during the worst of times, the Great Depression. From its peak in the 1930s until bebop, r & b, and country swamped it after World War II, swing defined an American generation and measured America's musical heartbeat. In its heyday swing reached a mass audience of very disparate individuals and united them. They perceived in the tempers and tempos of swing the very definition of modernity. A su. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource: illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9781604736762 |