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Pearl Harbor jazz : change in popular music in the early 1940s / Peter Townsend.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Townsend, Peter, 1948-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Jazz--1941-1950--History and criticism.
- Jazz.
- Jazz--Social aspects--United States.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (267 p.)
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- Jackson : University Press of Mississippi, 2007.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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
- Contents:
- Sunday matinee in St. Louis
- The war
- The alley
- The road
- Disorder at the border
- The avenue
- The street
- Postscript : Black, Brown, and Beige.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 239-244) and index.
- ISBN:
- 1-282-48530-X
- 1-60473-147-8
- OCLC:
- 220842772
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