Prologue: dance floor democracy? -- Introduction: writing on a crowded dance floor -- On location: situating the Hollywood Canteen (and swing culture as national memory) in wartime Los Angeles -- Wrestling Hollywood to the map -- Cruising the Cahuenga Pass(t) -- Operating from the curbstone -- Patriotic jitterbugs: tracing the footsteps of the soldier-hostess dyad -- Dyad democracy -- Injured parties -- Torquing back -- Women in uniforms, men in aprons: dancing outside the soldier-hostess dyad -- The dyad from without -- The view from the mezzanine -- Men serving men -- Swing between the nation and the state -- (Un)American patrol: following the state on the dance floor of the nation -- The making(s) of national memory: Hollywood Canteen (the movie).
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