Real Men Don’t Sing
Crooning in American Culture
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ISBN-13:
9780822359173
Veröffentl:
2015
Erscheinungsdatum:
25.09.2015
Seiten:
448
Autor:
Allison McCracken
Gewicht:
726 g
Format:
234x157x28 mm
Sprache:
Englisch
Beschreibung:
Allison McCracken charts the rise and fall of crooners between 1925 and 1934, showing how the backlash against crooners' perceived sexual and gender deviance created stylistically masculine norms for white male pop singers that continue to exist today.
Acknowledgments ix Introduction 1 1. Putting Over a Song: Crooning, Performance, and Audience in the Acoustic Era, 1880–1920 37 2. Crooning Goes Electric: Microphone Crooning and the Invention of the Intimate Singing Aesthetic, 1921–1928 74 3. Falling in Love with a Voice: Rudy Vallée and His First Radio Fans, 1928 126 4. "The Mouth of the Machine": The Creation of the Crooning Idol, 1929 160 5. "A Supine Sinking into the Primeval Ooze": Crooning and Its Discontents, 1929–1933 208 6. "The Kind of Natural That Worked": The Crooner Redefined, 1932–1934 (and Beyond) 264 Conclusion 311 Notes 333 Bibliography 375 Index 411
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