In this exuberant sequel to his prize-winning "The Jazz Age", Arnold Shaw captures virtually every aspect of popular music during the Depression. 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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In this exuberant sequel to his prize-winning "The Jazz Age", Arnold Shaw captures virtually every aspect of popular music during the Depression. 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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VG in VG jacket. Not ex-lib. Hardcover with violet paper boards and brown quarter-cloth, in brown illustrated jacket, 8vo. xiii + 241pp. Indices, lists in appendices. Fine/VG. Book has compliments bookplate from Arnold Shaw Research Center (UNLV) to mid ffep. Else as new: clean, tight, square and unmarked. Jacket has light abrasion along upper front edge and tip of upper rear coener. Ekse clean and strongly colored. jacket in Brodart.
