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Swingin the Dream I wingin' the Dream BIG BAND JAZZ AND THE REBIRTH OF AMERICAN CULTURE ~ LEWIS A. ERENBERG The University of Chicago Press Chicago & London LEWIS A. ERENBERG is professor of history and director of graduate programs at Loyola University. The University of Chicago Press, Chicago 60637 The University of Chicago Press, Ltd., London © 1998 by The University of Chicago All rights reserved. Published 1998 Printed in the United States of America 07 06 05 04 03 02 01 00 99 98 12345 ISBN: 0·226·21516-4 Title page photograph courtesy Frank Driggs Collection. Ubrary of Congress Cataloging.in.Publication Data Erenberg, Lewis A., 1944- Swingin' the dream: big band jazz and the rebirth of American culture I Lewis A. Erenberg. p. cm. Includes index. ISBN 0·226·21516·4 (alk. paper) 1. Big band music-History and criticism. 2. Jazz-History and criticism. 3. Popular culture-United States. I. Title. ML3518.E74 1998 781.65'4'0973-dc21 97·39135 CIP @The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences-Permanence of Paper for Printed Ubrary Materials, ANSI Z39.48·1992. For Sue "AS TIME GOES BY" ~ Contents List of Illustrations ix Preface xi Acknowledgments xix List of Abbreviations xxiii PART ONE: FROM JAZZ TO SWING, 1929-1935 Just One More Chance: The Fall of the Jazz Age and the Rise of Swing, 1929-1935 3 PART TWO: NOW THEY CALL IT SWING, 1935-1942 2 The Crowd Goes Wild: The Youth Culture of Swing 35 3 Swing Is Here: Benny Goodman and the Triumph of American Music 65 4 News from the Great Wide World: Count Basie, Duke Ellington, and Black Swing Bands 94 5 Swing Left: The Politics of Race and Culture in the Swing Era 120 6 The City of Swing: New York and the Dance Band Business in Black and White 150 PART THREE: CULTURE NOIR, 1942-1954 7 Swing Goes to War: Glenn Miller and the Popular Music of World War II 181 8 The War in Jazz 211 9 Coda and Conclusion: Red Scares and Head Scares 241 Notes 255 Index 295 Illustrations Fletcher Henderson's Roseland Orchestra, 1924 I 9 Paul Whiteman's Symphonic Jazz Orchestra, late 1920s I 12 Bing Crosby, 1932 I 21 Ruth Etting, 1932 / 25 Jimmie Lunceford Orchestra, 1939 / 28 Lindy hoppers, early 1940s / 49 Jitterbug dancers, 1937 I 52 Dancers and fans of the Benny Goodman Band at the World's Fair, 1939 / 57 Chick Webb vs. Count Basie, 1938 / 61 Benny Goodman Orchestra at Carnegie Hall, 1938 / 67 Benny Goodman Trio in rehearsal, 1937 / 83 Benny Goodman Sextet at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel, 1939 / 84 Helen Ward, 1937 / 87 Chick Webb Orchestra with Ella Fitzgerald, 1938 / 96 Duke Ellington Cotton Club Orchestra, 1932 / 100 Count Basie Band with Helen Humes, 1941 / 106 "King Joe" session, 1941 / 118 John Hammond and others, 1940 / 123 Benny Goodman Band at the Meadowbrook Lounge, 1941 / 131 Billie Holiday with the Hot Lips Page Orchestra at the Apollo Theatre, 1944 / 154 Nighttime on Fifty-second Street, 1940s / 158 Don Albert Band on the bus, 1938 / 175 Captain Glenn Miller, 1942 / 183 Glenn Miller's AAF Orchestra, 1944 / 192 Frank Sinatra, 1944 / 197 Eddie Durham's Sweethearts of Rhythm, 1943 / 199
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