Jazz. Episode five. Swing : pure pleasure

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In the mid 1930s, as the Great Depression refuses to lift, jazz comes as close as it has ever come to being America's popular music. It has a new name "Swing" and for the first time musicians become matinee idols. Includes Benny Goodman, Tommy Dorsey, Jimmie Lunceford, Glen Miller, Ar...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Burns, Ken, 1953-, Ward, Geoffrey C., David, Keith
Format: Video
Language:English
Published: Warner Home Video/PBS Home Video, c2000.
Edition:Full screen edition
Series:Jazz.
Subjects:
Goodman, Benny, > 1909-1986 > DVDs.
Dorsey, Tommy, > 1905-1956 > DVDs.
Lunceford, Jimmie > DVDs.
Miller, Glenn, > 1904-1944 > DVDs.
Shaw, Artie, > 1910-2004 > DVDs.
Holiday, Billie, > 1915-1959 > DVDs.
Armstrong, Louis, > 1901-1971 > DVDs.
Ellington, Duke, > 1899-1974 > DVDs.
Webb, Chick, > 1909-1939 > DVDs.
Jazz musicians > DVDs.
Swing (Music) > History and criticism > DVDs.
Jazz singers > DVDs.
Jazz > History and criticism > DVDs.
African American musicians > DVDs.
African American singers > DVDs.
African Americans > History > 1877-1964 > DVDs.
Depressions > 1929 > DVDs.
Nineteen thirties > DVDs.

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