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Dance Band Era: The Dancing Decades from Ragtime to Swing, 1910-50
by McCarthy, Albert
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Vg/F/VG+
- ISBN 10
- 0600329070
- ISBN 13
- 9780600329077
- Seller
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Salisbury, Wiltshire, United Kingdom
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About This Item
HARDBACK SHIPPED FROM THE UK* Edition: 1st. Thus. Reprint* Impression: 1st.* Date of Publication: 1974 (1971)* Publisher: Spring Books.* Binding and cover condition: Grey cloth, Gilt title to spine. No bumps or rubs, no visible faults. FINE* Jacket condition: B/W photo-cover on yellow green and red ground. NOT PRICE CLIPPED. Slight shelf wear to top & bottom edge and to head of spine. Spine slightly faded. VG++* Contents condition: PRIVATE COPY NOT EX-LIBRARY. Clean, crisp, tight and bright with minimal reading wear, no marks to text, very slight paper colouration to page margins throughout. VG* Illustrations: B/w photos throughout.* Pages: 170 pp. text. vi pp. Discography, bibliography & Index at rear.* Description: "In this comprehensive history, Albert McCarthy traces the rise and fall of the dance bands from the explosion of popular music in the years following 1918 to the onslaught of television and Elvis Presley in the 1950s. Here are the ragtime bands of the early years; the show bands of Fred Waring and Paul Whiteman; the society bands of Eddie Duchin and Guy Lombardo; the leading British bands of the 30s, which under the leadership of men like Jack Payne, Ray Noble and Jack Hylton reached a worldwide audience; and the great swing bands of Artie Shaw, Tommy Dorsey and Glenn Miller."* A NEAR FINE copy with only minor faults reducing it to VG*
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- Bookseller
- Cocksparrow Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 5255
- Title
- Dance Band Era: The Dancing Decades from Ragtime to Swing, 1910-50
- Author
- McCarthy, Albert
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Vg/F/VG+
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 0600329070
- ISBN 13
- 9780600329077
- Publisher
- Spring Books.
- Place of Publication
- London Uk 176
- This edition first published
- 1974
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