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Swinging the machine: modernity, technology, and African American culture between the World Wars

Joel Dinerstein
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  • Contents

  • Reviews

  • Frontmatter
  • Illustrations (page ix)
  • Acknowledgments (page xi)
  • Introduction: Bodies and Machines (page 3)
  • 1. The Tempo of Life Is Out of Control...and Then Righted (page 29)
  • 2. The Jazz Train and American Musical Modernity (page 63)
  • 3. African American Modernism and the Techno-Dialogic: From John Henry to Duke Ellington (page 105)
  • 4. Swinging the Machines: Big Bands and Streamliner Trains (page 137)
  • 5. The Standardized White Girl in the Pleasure Machine: The Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley's 1930s Musicals (page 182)
  • 6. Tap Dancers Rap Back at the Machine (page 221)
  • 7. America's National Folk Dance: The Lindy Hop (page 250)
  • 8. The World of Tomorrow...in the Groove: Swinging the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 (page 283)
  • Conclusion: The Continuing Importance of Swinging the Machine (page 312)
  • Notes (page 325)
  • Index (page 401)
Reviews
Journal AbbreviationLabelURL
AHR 109.4 (2004): 1252-1253 http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.1086/530822
AQ 56.2 (2004): 449-460 http://www.jstor.org/stable/40068203
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Published: c2003
Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
ISBN(s)
  • 9781558493735 (hardcover)
  • 9781558493834 (paper)
Subject
  • Race
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