LET'S DANCE - Popular Music in the 1930s,
by Arnold Shaw, edited by Bill Willard
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- Hardcover
- Condition
- Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY
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McCrae, Victoria, Australia
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Oxford University Press, New York 1998 hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dust jacket Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY GOOD price-clipped dj 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. Its a colourful 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 who bring a vibrant first-hand feel to the narrative.
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- Seller
- Pegasus Book Orphanage (AU)
- Seller's Inventory #
- 39796
- Title
- LET'S DANCE - Popular Music in the 1930s,
- Author
- Arnold Shaw, edited by Bill Willard
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover, 6½" x 9½", with dust jacket
- Book Condition
- Used - Ours is an ex-library copy in transparent protective covering, with usual stamps, stickers, barcode, etc. VERY GOOD book in VERY
- Binding
- Hardcover
- Publisher
- Oxford University Press, New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 242 pages
- Keywords
- Entertainment Big Band Music Popular Music Criticism Jazz History Jerome Kern Irving Berlin George Gershwin Rodgers and Hart Cole Porter Benny Goodman Count Basie Tommy Dorsey
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