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Author:

Dinerstein, Joel, 1958-

Title:

Swinging the machine : modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars / Joel Dinerstein.

Publisher:

University of Massachusetts Press,

Copyright Date:

c2003

Description:

xiii, 415 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.

Subject:

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.
African Americans in popular culture.
Popular culture--United States--History--20th century.
Technology--History--United States--History--20th century.
City and town life--United States--History--20th century.
United States--African American influences.--African American influences.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents:

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.

ISBN:

9781558493834 (pbk.)
1558493832 (pbk.)
9781558493735 (hbk.)
1558493735 (hbk.)

OCLC:

(OCoLC)50598115

LCCN:

2002013897

Locations:

USUX851 -- Iowa State University - Parks Library (Ames)

UNUX074 -- University of Northern Iowa - Rod Library (Cedar Falls)

OIAX792 -- Grinnell College (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

O3AX572 -- Cornell College - Russell D. Cole Library (Mount Vernon)