Research Catalog

Title

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

Author

Shaw, Arnold

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1998.

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Details

Additional Authors

Willard, Bill

Description

xiii, 241 p.; 24 cm.

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."--BOOK JACKET.

Subjects

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

Note

• Includes index.

Contents

1. The Thirties: Turbulent and Creative -- 2. "All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!" -- 3. "Life Begins at 8:40" -- 4. The Cradle of Swing -- 5. Your Hit Parade -- 6. The Big Band Boom -- 7. "I Got Rhythm" (1930) -- 8. "Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day" (1931) -- 9. "Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?" (1932) -- 10. "Who's Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?" (1933) -- 11. What a Difference a Song Made (1934) -- 12. "The Music Goes 'Round and 'Round" (1935) -- 13. "Stompin' at the Savoy" (1936) -- 14. "Sing Me a Song of Social Significance" (1937) -- 15. "One O'Clock Jump" (1938) -- 16. "Over the Rainbow" (1939) -- App. A. No. 1 Songs - Your Hit Parade -- App. B. Academy Award Nominees and Winners: Music - Best Song -- App. C. NARAS Hall of Fame Recordings -- App. D. Theme Songs -- App. E. Cotton Club Parades.

ISBN

0195053079 (acid-free paper)

LCCN

97045584

OCLC

• ocm37843866
• SCSB-4826145

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries