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Gene Santoro, Fi, September 1997

IN POSTWAR America, pumped with the energy of victory and prosperity and the conflicts of changing social attitudes, pop culture opened up new frontiers. The elastic space bordered by swing and bebop, rhythm-and-blues, and pop began to fill with singers like Dinah Washington, Peggy Lee, Nancy Wilson, and Sarah Vaughan.

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