Swing Changes

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Swing Changes is written by David Ware Stowe and published by Harvard University Press. It's available with International Standard Book Number or ISBN identification 0674858263 (ISBN 10) and 9780674858268 (ISBN 13).

Drawing on memoirs, oral histories, newspapers, magazines, recordings, photographs, literature, and films, Stowe looks at New Deal America through its music and shows us how the contradictions and tensions within swing--over race, politics, its own cultural status, the role of women--mirrored those played out in the larger society.