Tucker Swing Shift

"All-Girl" Bands of the 1940s
1. Auflage 2000
ISBN: 978-0-8223-8090-0
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 424 Seiten

The story, based on extensive individual interviews, of the women’s swing bands that toured extensively during World War II and after -- a kind of “League of their Own” for jazz.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tucker, Sherrie

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Jazz
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments

Introduction: “It Don’t Mean a Thing if it Ain’t in the History Books”

I Playing the Changes of World War II

1. Working the Swing Shift: Effects of World War II on “All-Girl” Bands

2. “Hours of Charm” with Phil Spitalny

3. Extracurricular Activities with the Prairie View Co-eds

II Road Hazards

4. Surveillance and Survival in the Jim Crow South

5. Internationalism and the Sweethearts of Rhythm

6. The Darlings of Rhythm: On the Road and Ready to Run

III USO-Camp Shows

7. Female Big Bands, Male Mass Audiences: Gendered Performances in a Theater of War

8. Battles of a “Sophisticated Lady”: Ada Leonard and the USO

9. “And, Fellas, They’re American Girls,”: On the Road with the Sharon Rogers All-Girl Band

Conclusion: Post-War Changes, Familiar Refrains

Notes

Bibliography

Über Autor(innen)

Sherrie Tucker is Assistant Professor of Women’s Studies at Hobart and William Smith Colleges. A longtime jazz fan, she has conducted oral histories for the Smithsonian Jazz Oral History Program, writes a column called “Jazzwomen Jam” for Jazz Now Magazine, and was formerly a jazz radio announcer in San Francisco.