Real men don't sing
Subtitle: crooning in American culture
By: Allison McCracken
Series: Refiguring American music; Refiguring American music
Published: 2015
Language: eng
Number of pages: 429
ISBN-13: 9780822359364; 9780822359173
Subjects: Sex role in music; Popular music; Male singers; Gender identity in music; History and criticism; Masculinity in music; Crooning; Masculinity in popular culture; Social conditions; Singing; History
Other titles: Crooning in American culture
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 375-409) and index.
Table of contents: title: Putting over a song : crooning, performance, and audience in the acoustic era, 1880-1920; title: Crooning goes electric : microphone crooning and the invention of the intimate singing aesthetic, 1921-1928; title: Falling in love with a voice : Rudy Vallée and his first radio fans, 1928; title: "The mouth of the machine" : the creation of the crooning idol, 1929; title: "A supine sinking into the primeval ooze" : crooning and its discontents, 1929-1933; title: "The kind of natural that worked? : the crooner redefined, 1932-1934 (and beyond).