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World War II set the stage for life in the 1940s, in the United States and across the world. Though the war ended in 1945, its impact on American pop culture lasted throughout that decade and beyond. In the early and mid-1940s, the war served as a dark and heavy backdrop for daily life. Americans turned to music, unprecedentedly accessible from their living room radio consoles, for diversion from the gravity of world events. Thus the Swing Era was born. Big band jazz music was upbeat. A perfect antidote to the glum sacrifices demanded by the war effort.
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Pfefferman, R. (2013). Cultural Fit. In: Strategic Reinvention in Popular Culture. Palgrave Macmillan, New York. https://doi.org/10.1057/9781137373199_4
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