| Book Review | The Journal of American History, 89.4

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Book Review

Swing, That Modern Sound. By Kenneth J. Bindas. (Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 2001. xx, 209 pp. Cloth, $46.00, ISBN 1-57806-382-5. Paper, $18.00, ISBN 1-57806-383-3.)

Swing-era music is often characterized by jazz historians as less innovative and authentic than the New Orleans-style jazz that came before it or the bebop that would follow, as an intermediary stage during which the music was whitened and commercialized. Kenneth J. Bindas, in his compelling new book, is aware of these interpretations, but he aims to cast a wider net and place the music in the larger cultural and historical context of the period from the Great Depression through World War II. He stresses that 'one must confront not only its musicological lineage, but also the social and cultural conditions of the people who created the sound, those who received or consumed it, and the market forces that promoted and profited from its popularity.' This broad approach to the subject is both the book's forte and its weakness, as the important sounds of swing are occasionally silenced in favor of historical and cultural commentary. . . .

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