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Author:

McCracken, Allison, 1968- author.

Title:

Real men don't sing : crooning in American culture / Allison McCracken.

Publisher:

Duke University Press,

Copyright Date:

2015

Description:

xiv, 429 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm.

Subject:

Crooning.
Male singers--United States.
Popular music--United States--1921-1930--History and criticism.
Popular music--United States--1931-1940--History and criticism.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-409) and index.

Contents:

Putting over a song : crooning, performance, and audience in the acoustic era, 1880-1920 -- Crooning goes electric : microphone crooning and the invention of the intimate singing aesthetic, 1921-1928 -- Falling in love with a voice: Rudy Vall©♭e and his first radio fans, 1928 -- "The mouth of the machine" : the creation of the crooning idol, 1929 -- "A supine sinking into the primeval ooze" : crooning and its discontents, 1929-1933 -- "The kind of natural that worked? : the crooner redefined, 1932-1934 (and beyond).

Series:

Refiguring American music

ISBN:

0822359367
9780822359364
0822359170
9780822359173

OCLC:

(OCoLC)894746159

LCCN:

2015010107

Locations:

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

PLAX964 -- Luther College - Preus Library (Decorah)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)