Swing shift
Subtitle: "all-girl" bands of the 1940s
By: Sherrie Tucker.
Publisher: Duke University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: Durham
Language: eng
Number of pages: 413
Subjects: Women jazz musicians -- United States; Jazz -- 1941-1950 -- History and criticism
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.

Although all-female jazz and dance bands had existed since the 1920s, now hundreds of such groups, both African American and white, barnstormed ballrooms, theaters, dance halls, military installations, and makeshift USO stages on the home front and abroad." "Tucker chronicles the careers of such bands as the International Sweethearts of Rhythm, Phil Spitalny's Hours of Charm, The Darlings of Rhythm, and the Sharon Rogers All-Girl Band."--BOOK JACKET.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [371]-396), discography (p. 396), filmography (p. 397), and index.