Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s

by Peter Townsend

Book Overview

This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak of World War II and by long-term changes in the music business, in popular taste and in American society itself. It describes how the infrastructure of American music, the interdependent fields of recording, touring, live engagements, radio...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1604732431
• ISBN13: 9781604732436
• Release Date: March 2009
• Publisher: University Press of Mississippi
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.92 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"