Arnold Shaw Lets Dance - Biblio (1998)

138 Pages·1998·7.3 MB·Esperanto

Let’s
Dance
Complimenls of Popular Music in the
Amold Shaw
Popular Music Research Center
1930s
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ARNOLD SHAW
EDITED BY
BILL W IL L A R D
UNLV
New York Oxford
Oxford University Press
1998
Copyright © 1998 by Cliita Milgrom Shaw
Contents
Foreivord ix
Preface xi
Prologue 3
1 The Thirties: Turbulent and Creative 7
2 “All Talking! All Singing! All Dancing!” 14
3 “Ldfe Begins at 8:40” 20
The Cradle of Swing 39
i Your Hit Parade 47
6 The Big Band Boom 60
7 “I Got Rhythm” (1930) 72
8 “Where the Blue of the Night Meets the Gold of the Day” (1931) 88
“Brother, Can You Spare a Dime?” (1932) 105
10 “Who’s Afraid of the Big Bad Wolf?” (1933) 114
What a Difference a Song Made (1934) 123
12 “The Music Goes ’Round and ’Round” (1935) 134
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