Swingin' the Dream

During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the music business. Swingin' the Dream explores that world, looking at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has kept people dancing ever since. " Swingin' the Dream is an intelligent, provocative study of the big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the 1930s; no