Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s

Pearl Harbor Jazz: Change in Popular Music in the Early 1940s
ISBN-10
1578069246
ISBN-13
9781578069248
Category
History
Pages
256
Language
English
Published
2007
Publisher
Univ. Press of Mississippi
Authors
Peter Townsend, Emeritus Professor of Experimental Physics in Engineering Peter Townsend

Description

A close examination of the period when World War II transformed American popular music

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