Author : David Ware Stowe
Release : 1994
Genre : Big band music
Kind : eBook
Book Rating : 268/5 ( reviews)
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Book Synopsis Swing Changes by : David Ware Stowe
Download or read book Swing Changes written by David Ware Stowe. This book was released on 1994. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, magazines, recordings, photographs, literature, and films, Stowe 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.