|
" Pearl Harbor jazz : "
Peter Townsend.
| Document Type
|
:
|
BL
|
| Record Number
|
:
|
960881
|
| Doc. No
|
:
|
b715251
|
| Main Entry
|
:
|
Townsend, Peter,1948-
|
| Title & Author
|
:
|
Pearl Harbor jazz : : change in popular music in the early 1940s /\ Peter Townsend.
|
| Publication Statement
|
:
|
Jackson :: University Press of Mississippi,, 2007.
|
| Page. NO
|
:
|
1 online resource (ix, 256 pages)
|
| ISBN
|
:
|
1604731478
|
|
|
:
|
: 9781604731477
|
|
|
:
|
1578069246
|
|
|
:
|
9781578069248
|
| Bibliographies/Indexes
|
:
|
Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
|
| Contents
|
:
|
Sunday matinee in St. Louis -- The war -- The alley -- The road -- Disorder at the border -- The avenue -- The street -- Postscript : Black, Brown, and Beige.
|
| Abstract
|
:
|
This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak of World War II and by long-term changes in the music business, in popular taste and in American society itself. It describes how the infrastructure of American music, the interdependent fields of recording, touring, live engagements, radio and the movies, was experiencing change in the conditions of wartime, and how this impacted upon musical styles, and hence upon the later history of popul.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Jazz-- Social aspects-- United States.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Jazz-- 1941-1950-- History and criticism.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Jazz-- Social aspects.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
Jazz.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
MUSIC-- Genres Styles-- Jazz.
|
| Subject
|
:
|
United States.
|
| Dewey Classification
|
:
|
781.650973/09044
|
| LC Classification
|
:
|
ML3918.J39T7 2007eb
|
| |