Let's Dance: Popular Music in the 1930's

by Arnold Shaw

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195053079
• ISBN13: 9780195053074
• Release Date: August 1998
• Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.0" x 9.3"