Introduction: Bodies and Machines -- 1. The Tempo of Life Is Out of Control ... and Then Righted -- 2. The Jazz Train and American Musical Modernity -- 3. African American Modernism and the Techno-Dialogic: From John Henry to Duke Ellington -- 4. Swinging the Machines: Big Bands and Streamliner Trains -- 5. The Standardized White Girl in the Pleasure Machine: The Ziegfeld Follies and Busby Berkeley's 1930s Musicals -- 6. Tap Dancers Rap Back at the Machine -- 7. America's National Folk Dance: The Lindy Hop -- 8. The World of Tomorrow ... in the Groove: Swinging the New York World's Fair, 1939-40 -- Conclusion: The Continuing Importance of Swinging the Machine
