| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 107.3

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Canada and the United States

Kenneth J. Bindas. Swing, That Modern Sound. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi. 2001. Pp. xix, 209. Cloth $46.00, paper $18.00.

"Swing Era" historiography spins, dips, and leaps of late, as historians attempt to make sense of the lively, seemingly contradictory interplay between art and commerce, authenticity and style, black and white that punctuates big band discourse. In recent years, historians have reexamined the "Swing Era," not as the sudden invention of musical form (Benny Goodman at the Palomar Ballroom in 1935), nor as sheer fakery and theft of black culture for white profit, but as a complex phenomenon of commercial culture that tells us something about American history. In this vein, Kenneth J. Bindas is not interested in "[W]hether Goodman is the King of Swing" but rather in "what factors allowed for the creation of this hierarchical lineage" (p. 18). . . .

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