| Book Review | The American Historical Review, 109.4

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Canada and the United States

Joel Dinerstein. Swinging the Machine: Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture Between the World Wars. Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press. 2003. Pp. xiii, 415. Cloth $80.00, paper $24.95.

This book joins the recent upsurge of popular and scholarly fascination with big band swing. Joel Dinerstein explores the popular music and social dance of the 1930s to demonstrate that African-American musical culture engaged in a dialogue with the long-standing Euro-American faith in technological progress. Focused primarily on African-American music and dance, the book argues that black culture, rooted in West African musical traditions, posed a serious cultural alternative to and critique of American technological values. Rather than treat music and dance as "natural" counterweights to the machine, Dinerstein argues that African-American culture represents a high modernist acceptance and critique of technological civilization. Black bands and dancers absorbed the sounds of modern industry and offered young people the tools to modernize their bodies and survive in the technological age.

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