This paper examines the role of visual culture in American popular music before World War II. In particular, this inquiry identifies the development of a standard protocol in the observable presentation that existed among commercial big bands. This target of this performance practice (i.e. the cultivation of optimal consumer appeal) created a visual norm or language (Jay, 1998) that served to cue expectations of entertainment and convey assurances of pleasure among audiences through the standardized arrangement of how a swing band looked and its “society” image. This case study considers the role of marketing and popular visual media in the codification of a homogenous template that became fundamental to popular dance orchestras not onl...
Through such amiable but hardly authentic dit-ties boogie-woogie entered the consciousness of millio...
In this delightful and engaging book, Greene uncovers a wonderful corner of American social history ...
From 1926 to 1958, the Savoy Ballroom in New York's Harlem neighborhood played a critical role in t...
This paper examines the role of visual culture in American popular music before World War II. In pa...
Known as the ‘King of Swing’, clarinetist and band leader Benny Goodman (1909-1986) threatened the N...
As author John Wriggle discusses in his book, Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Arranging in the Swing E...
This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, a...
As a part-time jazz musician who has found the history of his home town intriguing for many years in...
Today's listeners are likely to associate jazz with nightclubs and concert halls or, historical...
The dissertation distinguishes the cultural and historical significance of dance films produced afte...
Generally, artists wishing to communicate with the public have two options: to make something (the c...
Recent experimental psychological research on visual perception, auditory perception, and cross-moda...
The period between 1830 and 1930 witnessed significant cultural change in respect of brass instrumen...
“’The Rhythm of Our Time is Jazz’: Popular Entertainment during the Weimar Republic” examines the wi...
The clarinet is unique in that depending on what setting it is performed in determines the character...
Through such amiable but hardly authentic dit-ties boogie-woogie entered the consciousness of millio...
In this delightful and engaging book, Greene uncovers a wonderful corner of American social history ...
From 1926 to 1958, the Savoy Ballroom in New York's Harlem neighborhood played a critical role in t...
This paper examines the role of visual culture in American popular music before World War II. In pa...
Known as the ‘King of Swing’, clarinetist and band leader Benny Goodman (1909-1986) threatened the N...
As author John Wriggle discusses in his book, Blue Rhythm Fantasy: Big Band Arranging in the Swing E...
This is the first introductory survey of western twentieth-century music to address popular music, a...
As a part-time jazz musician who has found the history of his home town intriguing for many years in...
Today's listeners are likely to associate jazz with nightclubs and concert halls or, historical...
The dissertation distinguishes the cultural and historical significance of dance films produced afte...
Generally, artists wishing to communicate with the public have two options: to make something (the c...
Recent experimental psychological research on visual perception, auditory perception, and cross-moda...
The period between 1830 and 1930 witnessed significant cultural change in respect of brass instrumen...
“’The Rhythm of Our Time is Jazz’: Popular Entertainment during the Weimar Republic” examines the wi...
The clarinet is unique in that depending on what setting it is performed in determines the character...
Through such amiable but hardly authentic dit-ties boogie-woogie entered the consciousness of millio...
In this delightful and engaging book, Greene uncovers a wonderful corner of American social history ...
From 1926 to 1958, the Savoy Ballroom in New York's Harlem neighborhood played a critical role in t...