Going My Way: Bing Crosby and American Culture

CONTENTS
......Page 8
LIST OF ILLUSTRATIONS
......Page 12
FOREWORD......Page 14
PREFACE......Page 16
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
......Page 24
INTRODUCTION: Bring Crosby—Nothing Is What It Seems......Page 28
Part 1. THEORETICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CROSBY......Page 36
1. Analogies of Ignorance in Going My Way......Page 38
2. Going My Way?: Crosby and Catholicism on the Road to America......Page 44
3. Saint Bing: Apatheia, Masculine Desire, and the Films of Bing Crosby......Page 62
4. Bing on a Binge: Casting-Against-Type in The Country Girl......Page 74
Part 2. CULTURAL PERSPECTIVES ON CROSBY......Page 92
5. Bing Crosby: Rock ‘n’ Roll Godfather......Page 94
6. American Archetypes: How Crosby and Hope Became Hollywood’s Greatest Comedy Team......Page 106
7. Crosby at Paramount: From Crooner to Actor......Page 114
8. Bing Crosby, Walt Disney, and Ichabod Crane......Page 126
9. A Couple of Song and Dance Men: Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire......Page 134
10. Rivalries: The Mutual Mentoring of Bing Crosby and Frank Sinatra......Page 142
11. From Crooner to American Icon: Caricatures of Bing Crosby in American Cartoons from the 1930s to the 1950s......Page 150
Part 3. HISTORICAL PERSPECTIVES ON CROSBY......Page 160
12. Not Just “The Crooner”: Bing Crosby’s Research and Business Endeavors in World War II......Page 162
13. Bing’s Entertainment and War Bond Sales Activities During World War II......Page 168
14. Bing Crosby’s Magnetic Tape Revolution......Page 178
15. The Bing Crosby Fan Clubs......Page 186
CONCLUSION: Bring Crosby—Architect of Twentieth-Century Style......Page 190
PERSONAL COMMENTS......Page 194
Sing, Bing, Sing......Page 196
Thoughts on Relationships: 
Father, Son, Grandson......Page 198
The Real Bing Crosby......Page 200
SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY
......Page 204
LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS
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INDEX
......Page 220