Benny Goodman and the Swing Era

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Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 1989-10-26
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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Summary

This is the story of Goodman's life as seen through the music and social world of the Great Depression in the 1930s and beyond. Collier chronicles the rise and success of Goodman and his band against the social milieu and popular music of the time.

Author Biography


About the Author:
James Lincoln Collier is the author of over forty books, which have been published in twelve languages, including Russian: he is the only American writer on jazz to have official acceptance in the U.S.S.R. His books on music include biographies of Louis Armstrong and Duke Ellington, The Making of Jazz and Practical Music Theory, used in many schools. His articles on music have also appeared in the New York Times Sunday Magazine, Village Voice, Wall Street Journal, and many others. He contributed major articles to the New Grove Dictionary of American Music and to Grove's Dictionary of Jazz. Collier has worked as a jazz musician around New York for many years, and has played with groups in a dozen nations around the world.

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