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Swinging the machine : modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Joel Dinerstein
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- Amherst : University of Massachusetts Press, [2003]
- ©2003
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (xiii, 415 pages : illustrations)
- data file
- ISBNs
- 1558493735, 1558493832
- OCLC
- on1245814013
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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
Subjects
- African Americans -- Intellectual life -- 20th century.
- African Americans -- Music -- 20th century.
- 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.