Bibliograph

Real men don't sing, crooning in American culture, Allison McCracken

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Label

Real men don't sing, crooning in American culture, Allison McCracken

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references and index

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Real men don't sing

Nature of contents

dictionariesbibliography

Responsibility statement

Allison McCracken

Series statement

Refiguring American music

Sub title

crooning in American culture

Table Of Contents

Putting over a song : crooning, performance, and audience in the acoustic era, 1880-1920 -- Crooning goes electric : microphone crooning and the invention of the intimate singing aesthetic, 1921-1928 -- Falling in love with a voice: Rudy Vallée and his first radio fans, 1928 -- "The mouth of the machine" : the creation of the crooning idol, 1929 -- "A supine sinking into the primeval ooze" : crooning and its discontents, 1929-1933 -- "The kind of natural that worked? : the crooner redefined, 1932-1934 (and beyond)

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