ISBN:
9780822359173
,
9780822359364
Language:
English
Pages:
xiv, 429 Seiten
,
Illustrationen
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Refiguring American music
DDC:
782.421640811
Keywords:
Crooning
;
Male singers United States
;
Popular music History and criticism
;
1921-1930
;
United States
;
Popular music History and criticism
;
1931-1940
;
United States
;
Crooning
;
Male singers
;
Popular music History and criticism 1921-1930
;
Popular music History and criticism 1931-1940
Abstract:
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)
Description / Table of Contents:
Putting over a song : crooning, performance, and audience in the acoustic era, 1880-1920Crooning 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).
Note:
Formerly CIP. - Includes bibliographical references and index
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