Swing Changes

Swing Changes
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Publisher : Harvard University Press
Total Pages : 340
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ISBN-10 : 0674858263
ISBN-13 : 9780674858268
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Book Synopsis Swing Changes by : David Ware Stowe

Download or read book Swing Changes written by David Ware Stowe and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 1994 with total page 340 pages. 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.


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