During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create
large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the
imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the music
business. Swingin' the Dream explores that world, looking at the
racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has
kept people dancing ever since.
"Swingin' the Dream is an
intelligent, provocative study of the big band era, chiefly during its
golden hours in the 1930s; not merely does Lewis A. Erenberg give the
music its full due, but he places it in a larger context and makes, for
the most part, a plausible case for its importance."—Jonathan Yardley, Washington Post Book World
"An absorbing read for fans and an insightful view of the impact of an important homegrown art form."—Publishers Weekly
"[A]
fascinating celebration of the decade or so in which American popular
music basked in the sunlight of a seemingly endless high noon."—Tony
Russell, Times Literary Supplement
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