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Real Men Don't Sing
Crooning in American Culture
Taschenbuch von Allison McCracken
Sprache: Englisch

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The crooner Rudy Vallée's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity. Although Vallée and other crooners reflected the gender fluidity of late-1920s popular culture, their challenge to the Depression era's more conservative masculine norms led cultural authorities to stigmatize them as gender and sexual deviants. In Real Men Don't Sing Allison McCracken outlines crooning's history from its origins in minstrelsy through its development as the microphone sound most associated with white recording artists, band singers, and radio stars. She charts early crooners' rise and fall between 1925 and 1934, contrasting Rudy Vallée with Bing Crosby to demonstrate how attempts to contain crooners created and dictated standards of white masculinity for male singers. Unlike Vallée, Crosby survived the crooner backlash by adapting his voice and persona to adhere to white middle-class masculine norms. The effects of these norms are felt to this day, as critics continue to question the masculinity of youthful, romantic white male singers. Crooners, McCracken shows, not only were the first pop stars: their short-lived yet massive popularity fundamentally changed American culture.
The crooner Rudy Vallée's soft, intimate, and sensual vocal delivery simultaneously captivated millions of adoring fans and drew harsh criticism from those threatened by his sensitive masculinity. Although Vallée and other crooners reflected the gender fluidity of late-1920s popular culture, their challenge to the Depression era's more conservative masculine norms led cultural authorities to stigmatize them as gender and sexual deviants. In Real Men Don't Sing Allison McCracken outlines crooning's history from its origins in minstrelsy through its development as the microphone sound most associated with white recording artists, band singers, and radio stars. She charts early crooners' rise and fall between 1925 and 1934, contrasting Rudy Vallée with Bing Crosby to demonstrate how attempts to contain crooners created and dictated standards of white masculinity for male singers. Unlike Vallée, Crosby survived the crooner backlash by adapting his voice and persona to adhere to white middle-class masculine norms. The effects of these norms are felt to this day, as critics continue to question the masculinity of youthful, romantic white male singers. Crooners, McCracken shows, not only were the first pop stars: their short-lived yet massive popularity fundamentally changed American culture.
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Allison McCracken
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Putting Over a Song: Crooning, Performance, and Audience in the Acoustic Era, 1880–1920 37

2. Crooning Goes Electric: Microphone Crooning and the Invention of the Intimate Singing Aesthetic, 1921–1928 74

3. Falling in Love with a Voice: Rudy Vallée and His First Radio Fans, 1928 126

4. "The Mouth of the Machine": The Creation of the Crooning Idol, 1929 160

5. "A Supine Sinking into the Primeval Ooze": Crooning and Its Discontents, 1929–1933 208

6. "The Kind of Natural That Worked": The Crooner Redefined, 1932–1934 (and Beyond) 264

Conclusion 311

Notes 333

Bibliography 375

Index 411
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Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 444
ISBN-13: 9780822359364
ISBN-10: 0822359367
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCracken, Allison
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Allison McCracken
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2015
Gewicht: 0,639 kg
preigu-id: 105031133
Über den Autor
Allison McCracken
Inhaltsverzeichnis
Acknowledgments ix

Introduction 1

1. Putting Over a Song: Crooning, Performance, and Audience in the Acoustic Era, 1880–1920 37

2. Crooning Goes Electric: Microphone Crooning and the Invention of the Intimate Singing Aesthetic, 1921–1928 74

3. Falling in Love with a Voice: Rudy Vallée and His First Radio Fans, 1928 126

4. "The Mouth of the Machine": The Creation of the Crooning Idol, 1929 160

5. "A Supine Sinking into the Primeval Ooze": Crooning and Its Discontents, 1929–1933 208

6. "The Kind of Natural That Worked": The Crooner Redefined, 1932–1934 (and Beyond) 264

Conclusion 311

Notes 333

Bibliography 375

Index 411
Details
Erscheinungsjahr: 2015
Genre: Musik
Rubrik: Kunst & Musik
Thema: Allg. Handbücher & Lexika
Medium: Taschenbuch
Seiten: 444
ISBN-13: 9780822359364
ISBN-10: 0822359367
Sprache: Englisch
Ausstattung / Beilage: Paperback
Einband: Kartoniert / Broschiert
Autor: McCracken, Allison
Hersteller: Duke University Press
Maße: 229 x 152 x 24 mm
Von/Mit: Allison McCracken
Erscheinungsdatum: 25.09.2015
Gewicht: 0,639 kg
preigu-id: 105031133
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