The American Dance Band Discography 1917-1942
The American Dance Band Discography 1917-1942

Author: Brian A. L. Rust

Publisher: New Rochelle, N.Y. : Arlington House

Published: 1975

Total Pages: 2066

ISBN-13: 9780870002489

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Lists all known recordings made between 1917 and 1942 by the more than twenty-three hundred American dance bands, famous and obscure, excluding the Miller, Goodman, and all Negro bands

The Adventures of Ozzie Nelson
The Adventures of Ozzie Nelson

Author: John R. Holmes

Publisher: McFarland

Published: 2021-09-28

Total Pages: 427

ISBN-13: 1476643695

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When Ozzie Nelson died in 1975, he was no longer a household name. For a guy who had created the longest-running TV sitcom in history, invented the rock video, and fronted one of the most successful big bands of the 1930s, it's baffling that Nelson has faded so far from American media memory. Larger than life offscreen--an attorney, college football star, cartoonist, songwriter, major band leader--Ozzie created a smaller-than-life TV persona, the bumbling average Dad who became known to the rock generation (which included his teen idol son Rick Nelson) as the essence of blandness. But America also saw Ozzie as their iconic Dad: not a "father knows best," since his pontifications usually proved flawed by the end of each episode, but the father who tried his best. This book is the only full-length biography of Ozzie Nelson since he published his memoirs in 1973. It treats the big band and early TV icon with affection and hints that American pop culture may owe more to Ozzie than is generally acknowledged.

‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage
‘Intoxicating Shanghai’ – An Urban Montage

Author: Paul Bevan

Publisher: BRILL

Published: 2020-04-14

Total Pages: 437

ISBN-13: 9004428739

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In Intoxicating Shanghai, Paul Bevan explores the work of a number of Chinese modernist figures in the fields of literature and the visual arts, with an emphasis on the literary group the New-sensationists and its equivalents in the Shanghai art world, examining the work of these figures as it appeared in pictorial magazines. It undertakes a detailed examination into the significance of the pictorial magazine as a medium for the dissemination of literature and art during the 1930s. The research locates the work of these artists and writers within the context of wider literary and art production in Shanghai, focusing on art, literature, cinema, music, and dance hall culture, with a specific emphasis on 1934 – ‘The Year of the Magazine’.