<div>During the 1930s, swing bands combined jazz and popular music to create large-scale dreams for the Depression generation, capturing the imagination of America's young people, music critics, and the music business. <i>Swingin' the Dream</i> explores that world, looking at the racial mixing-up and musical swinging-out that shook the nation and has kept people dancing ever since.<br><br>"<i>Swingin' the Dream</i> is an intelligent, provocative study of the big band era, chiefly during its golden hours in the 1930s; not merely does Lewis A. Erenberg give the music its full due, but he places it in a larger context and makes, for the most part, a plausible case for its importance."--Jonathan Yardley, <i>Washington Post Book World</i><br><br>"An absorbing read for fans and an insightful view of the impact of an important homegrown art form."--<i>Publishers Weekly</i><br><br>"[A] fascinating celebration of the decade or so in which American popular music basked in the sunlight of a seemingly endless high noon."--Tony Russell, <i>Times Literary Supplement</i><br><br><br></div>