The Wonderful Era Of The Great Dance Bands
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The Wonderful Era Of The Great Dance Bands
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Author : Leo Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1964
The Wonderful Era Of The Great Dance Bands written by Leo Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1964 with Big bands categories.
The Wonderful Era Of
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Author : Leo Walker
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1972
The Wonderful Era Of written by Leo Walker and has been published by this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1972 with Big bands categories.
The Wonderful Era Of The Great Dance Bands
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Author : Leo Walker
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press, Incorporated
Release Date : 1990-03-21
The Wonderful Era Of The Great Dance Bands written by Leo Walker and has been published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1990-03-21 with Music categories.
Organized, lucid, and definitive, this book presents a complete coverage of the spectacular reign of the dance bands during Prohibition, wartime, and the postwar boom. The author's knowledge, gleaned from firsthand association with the music business and its prominent people, is matched only by his unbounded enthusiasm for the music he writes about. Here he recounts more than three decades of entertainment, tracing the growth of the bands from the early small combos to the days when many boasted thirty men including large string sections and seven or eight vocalists. The over 400 pictures include the first organized dance orchestras, the big bands of the twenties in which the popular leaders. This authoritative chronicle of one of the nation's most colorful eras is sure to evoke fond memories in those old enough to remember it, and instill yearnings for halcyon days in younger readers as well.
The Great British Dance Bands And Their Vocalists
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Author :
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1999
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The Dance Band Era
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Author : Albert J. McCarthy
language : en
Publisher: Philadelphia : Chilton Book Company
Release Date : 1971
The Dance Band Era written by Albert J. McCarthy and has been published by Philadelphia : Chilton Book Company this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1971 with Music categories.
The Dance Band Era
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Author : Albert MCCARTHY
language : en
Publisher:
Release Date : 1974
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The Later Swing Era 1942 To 1955
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Author : Lawrence McClellan
language : en
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Release Date : 2004-08-30
The Later Swing Era 1942 To 1955 written by Lawrence McClellan and has been published by Bloomsbury Publishing USA this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2004-08-30 with Social Science categories.
Today's Retro Swing bands, like the Squirrel Nut Zippers and the Brian Setzer Orchestra, all owe their inspiration to the original masters of Swing. This rich reference details the oeuvre of the leading Swing musicians from the WWII and post-WWII years. Chapters on the masters of Swing (Ella Fitzgerald, Woody Herman, Billy Strayhorn), the legendary Big Band leaders (such as Les Brown, Dizzy Gillespie, Stan Kenton, Buddy Rich, Vaughan Monroe, etc.), vocalists (including Cab Calloway, Billie Holiday, Peggy Lee, Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughn, Dinah Washington), and Small Groups (Louis Jordan, Art Tatum, Charlie Ventura, etc.) introduce these timeless musicians to a new generation of musicians and music fans. An opening chapter recounts how the cultural changes during the war and postwar years affected performers-especially women and African-Americans-and an A-to-Z appendix provides synopses of almost 700 entrants, including related musicians and famous venues. A bibliography and subject index provide additional tools for those researching Swing music and its many roles in mid-century American culture. This volume is a perfect sequel to Dave Oliphant's The Early Swing Era: 1930 to 1941. Together, these books provide the perfect reference guide to an enduring form of American music.
Swingin The Dream
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Author : Lewis A. Erenberg
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 1999-09-08
Swingin The Dream written by Lewis A. Erenberg and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1999-09-08 with Music categories.
During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the music business. Swingin' the Dream explores that world, looking at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has kept people dancing ever since. "Swingin' the Dream is an intelligent, provocative study of the big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the 1930s; not merely does Lewis A. Erenberg give the music its full due, but he places it in a larger context and makes, for the most part, a plausible case for its importance."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World "An absorbing read for fans and an insightful view of the impact of an important homegrown art form."—Publishers Weekly "[A] fascinating celebration of the decade or so in which American popular music basked in the sunlight of a seemingly endless high noon."—Tony Russell, Times Literary Supplement
The Big Band Almanac
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Author : Leo Walker
language : en
Publisher: Da Capo Press
Release Date : 1989-03-22
The Big Band Almanac written by Leo Walker and has been published by Da Capo Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 1989-03-22 with Music categories.
With more than 500 pictures, and extensive entries on more than 350 orchestras, this complete coverage of black and white bands--from the almost-forgotten to Basie, Ellington, Miller, Shaw, and Dorsey--will prompt memories and establish important facts about a glorious era of jazz and popular music. Forewords by Les Brown and Harry James and an index with more than 6,000 names bracket a book that should be part of any music library.
Lonesome Roads And Streets Of Dreams
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Author : Andrew S. Berish
language : en
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Release Date : 2012-04-15
Lonesome Roads And Streets Of Dreams written by Andrew S. Berish and has been published by University of Chicago Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2012-04-15 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Any listener knows the power of music to define a place, but few can describe the how or why of this phenomenon. In Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams: Place, Mobility, and Race in Jazz of the 1930s and ’40s, Andrew Berish attempts to right this wrong, showcasing how American jazz defined a culture particularly preoccupied with place. By analyzing both the performances and cultural context of leading jazz figures, including the many famous venues where they played, Berish bridges two dominant scholarly approaches to the genre, offering not only a new reading of swing era jazz but an entirely new framework for musical analysis in general, one that examines how the geographical realities of daily life can be transformed into musical sound. Focusing on white bandleader Jan Garber, black bandleader Duke Ellington, white saxophonist Charlie Barnet, and black guitarist Charlie Christian, as well as traveling from Catalina Island to Manhattan to Oklahoma City, Lonesome Roads and Streets of Dreams depicts not only a geography of race but how this geography was disrupted, how these musicians crossed physical and racial boundaries—from black to white, South to North, and rural to urban—and how they found expression for these movements in the insistent music they were creating.