UMass Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press

Modernity, Technology, and African American Culture between the World Wars

Joel Dinerstein

Contents

Illustrations

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Bodies and Machines p. 3

1. The Tempo of Life Is Out of Control. . .and Then Righted p. 29

2. The Jazz Train and American Musical Modernity p. 63

3. African American Modernism and the Techno-Dialogic: From John Henry to Duke Ellington p. 105

4. Swinging the Machines: Big Bands and Streamliner Trains p. 137

5. The Standardized White Girl in the Pleasure Machine: The Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley's 1930s Musicals p. 182

6. Tap Dancers Rap Back at the Machine p. 221

7. America's National Folk Dance: The Lindy Hop p. 250

8. The World of Tomorrow ... in the Groove: Swinging the New York World's Fair,
1939–40 p. 283

Conclusion: The Continuing Importance of Swinging the Machine p. 312

Notes p. 325

Index p. 401