Frank Sinatra and Popular Culture: Essays on an American Icon

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Preface
Introduction by Leonard Mustazza Celebrity, American Culture, and Frank Sinatra What's this about Races? by Frank Sinatra Love in the Western World: Sinatra and the Conflict of Generations by T.H. Adamowski The Swinger and the Loser: Sinatra, Masculinity,
Appendix Career Highlights Selected
Bibliography
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Frank Sinatra's influence on American popular culture has been wide reaching and long lasting. This diverse collection of essays written by historians, music critics, and popular culture personalities offers a myriad of perspectives and commentaries on this multitalented legend. The essays attest to the interest in Sinatra that has spanned six decades and shows no sign of diminishing-even after his death. From singer to actor, from mass media personality to humanitarian and cultural trendsetter, the many contributions of Frank Sinatra are brought to life in this entertaining volume.

Written to appeal to Sinatra fans, these unique essays, including one by Frank Sinatra himself, are organized into three sections. The first examines Sinatra's fame and the ways in which his image was formed, the second looks at his music, and the final group of essays are personal reminiscences by the people who knew him. Together these essays will provide new material for the ever-growing dialogue about Frank Sinatra's place in and influence over twentieth-century American popular culture.

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A useful addition to popular music and culture collections at academic and public libraries

This collection of 18 essays (including a 1945 plea for racial harmony by Sinatra himself), 13 of them new, is a mixed bag of superb musical and technical insight, interesting cultural studies analysis, and pure blather

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