Table of Contents

Acknowledgments Introduction Music and Media: Radio, Sheet Music, and Recordings Popular Hits and Standards Music From Broadway and Hollywood The Rise of Swing and the Triumph of Big Bands Roots Music The Classical Tradition and the Federal Music Project Citations A Musical Timeline for the Period 1929-1940 Appendix I: Outstanding Bandleaders from the 1930s Appendix II: Outstanding Vocalists from the 1930s Appendix III: Outstanding Instrumentalists and Sidemen from the 1930s Appendix IV: Outstanding Songwriters, Lyricists, and Arrangers from the 1930s Selected Sources

Promotional Information

This volume in the new American History through Music reference series examines how popular music came to the fore during the Great Depression and explores the lives of the great musicians who contributed to making and performing the music that helped America through one of its most difficult times.

About the Author

WILLIAM H. YOUNG is a freelance writer and independent scholar, who has published books and articles on various subjects of popular culture. NANCY K. YOUNG is an adjunct professor for the Counselor Education Program in the School of Education and Human Development at Lynchburg College.

Reviews

Comprising brief accounts of nearly every aspect of music in the 1930s, this encyclopedic survey covers popular, folk, and classical music; regional, national, and ethnic styles; and composers, performers, producers, and media….[t]his will be a handy supplementary resource for coursework in music and American studies. Recommended. Lower-/upper-division undergraduates; graduate students; general readers.
*Choice*

[A] comprehensive and extensively researched test which covers every facet of American music during the 1930s. There are few scholarly texts which present the topic in such detail … [The] book not only builds on this scholarship but also allows a more rounded view of the era to coem to light… [A]n extremely useful reference book for the researcher. ^IMusic of the Great Depression^R is an invaluable resource for graduate students and non-specialist academics who wish to April, 1actual awareness of the era.
*Journal of American Studies*