Pearl Harbor jazz :: change in popular music in the early 1940s /

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 America...

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Main Author: Townsend, Peter, 1948- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
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Online Access:DE-862
DE-863
Summary: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.
Physical Description:1 online resource (ix, 256 pages)
Bibliography:Includes bibliographical references (pages 239-244) and index.
ISBN:9781604731477
1604731478

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