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| Genre/Form: | Music |
|---|---|
| Additional Physical Format: | Online version: Dinerstein, Joel, 1958- Swinging the machine. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2003 (OCoLC)606980010 Online version: Dinerstein, Joel, 1958- Swinging the machine. Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, c2003 (OCoLC)608103559 |
| Material Type: | Government publication, State or province government publication |
| Document Type: | Book |
| All Authors / Contributors: |
Joel Dinerstein |
| ISBN: | 1558493735 9781558493735 1558493832 9781558493834 |
| OCLC Number: | 50598115 |
| Description: | xiii, 415 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Contents: | Introduction, bodies and machines -- The tempo of life is out of control, and then righted -- The jazz train and American musical modernity -- African American modernism and the techno-dialogic : from John Henry to Duke Ellington -- Swinging the machines : big bands and streamliner trains -- The standardized white girl in the pleasure machine : the Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley's 1930s musicals -- Tap dancers rap back at the machine -- America's national folk dance : the Lindy hop -- The world of tomorrow...in the groove : swinging the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 -- Conclusion: the continuing importance of swinging the machine. |
| Responsibility: | Joel Dinerstein. |
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- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
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- Swing (Music) -- History.
- African American dance -- History -- 20th century.
- Swing (Dance) -- United States -- History.
- United States -- Civilization -- African American influences.
- African Americans in popular culture.
- Popular culture -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Technology -- Social aspects -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- City and town life -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
- Populaire cultuur.
- Negers.
- Modernisme (cultuur)
- Kultur
- Musik
- Technologie
- Soziale Rolle
- USA
- Schwarze

