Bands were playing, people were dancing, the music business was booming. It was the big-band era, and swing was giving a new shape and sound to American culture. Swing Changes looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions and tensions within swing-over race, politics, its own cultural status, the role of women-mirrored those played out in the larger society. Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, magazines, recordings, photographs, literature, and films, Swing Changes offers a vibrant picture of American society at a pivotal time, and a new perspective on music as a cultural force.
- ISBN10 0674858263
- ISBN13 9780674858268
- Publish Date 31 October 1996
- Publish Status Active
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Harvard University Press
- Format Paperback
- Pages 299
- Language English