Music of the Great Depression

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