Big bands & great ballrooms
Subtitle: American is dancing-- again
By: by John "Jack" Behrens.
Publisher: AuthorHouse; Authorhouse
Published: 2006
Place of publication: Bloomington, IN
Language: eng
Number of pages: 198
ISBN-13: 9781425969776
Subjects: Big bands -- History; Ballrooms -- United States -- History; Big band music -- History and criticism; Swing (Music) -- History and criticism
Other titles: America is dancing again; Big bands and great ballrooms
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Territorial bands : where it all began; title: Ballrooms then; title: now; title: Dancers, bands flocked to the east coast; title: The Aragon : Chicago's big band palace; title: The playground of Ohio : Buckeye Lake's ballrooms; title: The Palladium : where everyone wanted to play; title: Never home for the holidays; title: Ballrooms in America : dancing is back; title: America's ballroom past; title: Will there be big bands forever?; title: Today's major ghost bands; title: Big band, jazz, swing repositories.