Let's dance : popular music in the 1930s / Arnold Shaw ; edited by Bill Willard.

Format:

• Book

Author/Creator:

• Shaw, Arnold.

Contributor:

• Willard, Bill.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

• Popular music--United States--1931-1940--History and criticism.
• Big band music--History and criticism.
• Big band music.
• Jazz--1931-1940--History and criticism.
• Jazz.
• Popular music.
• United States.

Physical Description:

xiii, 241 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

Summary:

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. From Gershwin's Porgy and Bess to Disney's Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs, from Woody Guthrie to Ethel Merman, and from the Carioca to the Lindy Hop, here is an affectionate and informative account of this golden era of popular song.

Notes:

Includes indexes.

ISBN:

0195053079

OCLC:

37843866