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- Swingin’ the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture by Lewis A. Erenberg
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The text is a study of the big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the s; Lewis A.
Erenberg places the music within a larger context and makes his case for its importance. Product details Format Paperback pages Dimensions People who bought this also bought.
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Instead of practicing musical analysis fine sources of that are cited in his notes , he considers how such bandleaders as Count Basie, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, and Artie Shaw were crucial in breaking down racial stereotypes, heralding integration, and championing American folk culture.
Erenberg also spiritedly surveys how a cross section of the American population responded to these musicians.
Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture.
The fans' enthusiasm for popular music helped build the youth culture still active today, and radio stations and publications arose at this time to nurture that culture, a development Erenberg treats humorously as well as informatively. Today's fans and jazz writers may find themselves longing for the days when, Erenberg says, Down Beat critics displayed "a nonsectarian leftist populism that fit with the magazine's screwball democratic ethos. Few musicologists give much acknowledgment to musical styles popular before the bebop explosion of the late s.
Mindless commercial entertainment for the masses seems to be the consensus of most serious critics. But Erenberg Steppin' Out, Greenwood, makes the case that the era between and , when big bands dominated popular culture, was a golden age when American music finally shed the constraints of European influence.
Making its greatest impact during the stormy periods of the Great Depression and World War II, this music, a collaboration between African Americans and the children of immigrants, changed not only culture but American society as a whole.
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The effect of the fans shaping the course of the music hints at the influence young people continue to have on popular culture to this day. This book is a thorough chronicle of a vibrant music that provided the soundtrack for some of our most troubling times, and along the way changed our country's view of itself. Federation, Curwensville, PA c Copyright Historian Erenberg begins this fascinating overview of swing music from its inception in the early s to its demise by the early s with the sweet dance bands that captured the public's fancy during the Depression.
By the mid s, a plethora of black and white musicians, particularly Benny Goodman, replaced these original bands, providing youth with hot swing, a stimulating new sound and subculture that was centered in New York City but quickly spread throughout the country in dance and concert halls, on records, and on the radio.
Swingin' the dream : big band jazz and the rebirth of American culture
Although white bands dominated the media, black bands struggled to be heard. Swing also connected with the upsurge of leftist politics, particularly denoting racial equality and a democratic ethos. During WW II, Glenn Miller's bland, highly orchestrated swing style epitomized nostalgia for the good old days, and soon most of the large bands broke up, replaced by small, mostly black, bebop combos. Erenberg deftly captures the many faces of swing, which "offered young people powerful visions of personal freedom and generational solidarity, defined a mass youth style around music, dance, and fashion, and conveyed hopeful visions of the future.
Numerous photos and detailed notes are very helpful.