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Real men don't sing : crooning in American culture / Allison McCracken.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- McCracken, Allison, 1968- author.
- Series:
- Refiguring American music.
- Refiguring American music
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Crooning.
- Male singers--United States.
- Male singers.
- Popular music--United States--1921-1930--History and criticism.
- Popular music.
- Popular music--United States--1931-1940--History and criticism.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (449 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- Durham : Duke University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Allison McCracken charts the rise and fall of crooners between 1925 and 1934, showing how the backlash against crooners' perceived sexual and gender deviance created stylistically masculine norms for white male pop singers that continue to exist today.
- 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 Vallée 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).
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9780822375326
- 082237532X
- OCLC:
- 1143648471
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