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Let's Dance: Popular Music in the 1930s,Used
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In this exuberant sequel to his prizewinning The Jazz Age, Arnold Shaw captures virtually every aspect of popular music during the Depression.Here is a colorful yearbyyear chronicle of music in the '30s, blended with chapters on broader topicsthe jazz clubs on Swing Street, the Big Band boomand spiced with interviews with major figures (such as Burton Lane and Lionel Hampton), who bring a vibrant firsthand 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 "makebelieve ballroom," which brought music to households from coast to coast. And we experience once again the great Broadway musicals of the periodfrom Girl Crazy to The Cradle Will Rockwritten 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 Erawhen swing bands dominated dance halls, ballrooms, radio broadcasts, and record salesand Shaw provides superb portraits of Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Glenn Miller, Count Basie, Tommy Dorsey, and countless others.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.
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