Swingin' the Dream: Big Band Jazz and the Rebirth of American Culture | 
This book offers a very comprehensive look at the swing-jazz era: the music and musicians, the black-vs-white elephant in the room; the media that developed around the craze; the dances; the city of New York during the 1920s-1940s, etc. It's great research for my forthcoming novel about Billy Tipton, a transgender male musician whose initial impetus for presenting as male was to get work as a musician in OK City.
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