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Swinging the machine : modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars

Author: Joel Dinerstein
Publisher: Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, ©2003.
Edition/Format:   Book : State or province government publication : EnglishView all editions and formats
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Genre/Form: Music
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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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