Product Description: This book is a study of a crucial period in the life of American jazz and popular music. Pearl Harbor Jazz analyses the changes in the world of the professional musician brought about both by the outbreak of World War II and by long-term changes in the music business, in popular taste and in American society itself...read more

Product Description: The forgotten history of the “all-girl” big bands of the World War II era takes center stage in Sherrie Tucker’s Swing Shift. American demand for swing skyrocketed with the onslaught of war as millions—isolated from loved ones—sought diversion, comfort, and social contact through music and dance...read more (view table of contents, read Amazon.com's description)

Chronicles the social and musical factors that culminated in the birth of bebop

Interviews with more than fifty of the seminal figures in jazz history recall how jazz moved from the big band era into the modern jazz period (view table of contents)