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In this exuberant sequel to his prize-winning The Jazz Age , Arnold Shaw captures virtually every aspect of popular music during the Depression. Here is a colorful year-by-year chronicle of music in the '30s, blended with chapters on broader topics - the jazz clubs on Swing Street, the Big Band boom - and spiced with interviews with major figures (such as Burton Lane and Lionel Hampton), who bring a vibrant first-hand feel to the narrative. Readers visit every corner of the music scene. We watch as the Hollywood musical takes off, highlighted by the brilliant Busby Berkeley and the luminous partnership of Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers. We read about the incredible popularity of radio shows such as Your Hit Parade and Martin Block's "make-believe ballroom," which brought music to households from coast to coast. And we experience once again the great Broadway musicals of the period - from Girl Crazy to The Cradle Will Rock - written by a who's who of American song: Jerome Kern, Irving Berlin, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, and Cole Porter. But above all, the '30s were the Swing Era, when swing bands dominated dance halls, ballrooms, radio broadcasts, and record sales, and Shaw

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Author

Arnold Shaw

Publisher

IRL Press at Oxford University Press

Published

1998

Language

EN

ISBN

9780195053074

Category

music

Subjects

Music, History, Arts

Rating

5 / 5 (2 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14