McCracken Real Men Don't Sing

Crooning in American Culture
1. Auflage 2015
ISBN: 978-0-8223-7532-6
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 448 Seiten

Reihe: Refiguring American Music

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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

McCracken, Allison

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Musikgattungen Rock & Pop, Blues, Soul
• Geisteswissenschaften Musikwissenschaft Geschichte der Musik
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Gender Studies, Geschlechtersoziologie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

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

Über Autor(innen)

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