Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars

by Joel Dinerstein

Book Overview

In any age and any given society, cultural practices reflect the material circumstances of people's everyday lives. According to Joel Dinerstein, it was no different in America between the two World Wars-an era sometimes known as the "machine age"-when innovative forms of music and dance helped a newly urbanized population cope with the increased mechanization of modern life. Grand spectacles such as the Ziegfeld Follies and the movies of Busby Berkeley...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1558493832
• ISBN13: 9781558493834
• Release Date: April 2003
• Publisher: University of Massachusetts Press
• Length: 384 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher