Allison McCracken

Real Men Don't Sing

Crooning in American Culture

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Refiguring American Music
• Verlag: Duke University Press
• Seitenzahl: 444
• Erscheinungstermin: 25. September 2015
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 24mm
• Gewicht: 664g
• ISBN-13: 9780822359364
• ISBN-10: 0822359367
• Artikelnr.: 41750707

Autorenporträt

Allison McCracken is Associate Professor of American Studies at DePaul University.

Inhaltsangabe

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