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1 American Music in the 1930s

2 The Great Depression “Popular Music” – identifier for any music in any genre from a select time frame that aspired to and achieved popularity with a particular artist Popular music in the 1930s can be used as a lens to better understand the collective memory of Americans during a decade marked by Depression, emerging technologies, and a surge in urbanization Over the course of the decade, American taste in music changed dramatically

3 Shifting Trends in the 1930s
In the mainstream, the “sweet” sounds of the late Jazz Age dance bands like Guy Lombardo gave way to the more rhythmically involved and aggressive horn arrangements of Swing Era bandleaders like Benny Goodman and Tommy Dorsey “Vernacular” performances were recorded during an initial wave of interest in “race records,” “hillbilly,” and “ethnic” music generating interest in Robert Johnson, Jimmie Rogers, Roy Acuff, Carter Family, Bill Monroe, Bob Wills The origins of emerging modern music was seen in the fine-tuning of jazz rhythm and blues by Duke Ellington, Billie Holliday, Ella Fitzgerald, and Count Basie

4 Guy Lombardo

5 Guy Lombardo and his Royal Canadians, “Love Me or Leave Me” (Walter Donaldson, 1929)

6 Swing Band Era Benny Goodman Tommy Dorsey

7 Benny Goodman Orchestra, “Sing, Sing, Sing” (Louis Prima, 1935)

8 Vernacular Robert Johnson Jimmie Rogers

9 Listening Guide 14.1a: Walking Blues” ROBERT JOHNSON
An Introduction to America’s Music, 2nd Edition Copyright © 2013, W.W. Norton & Company 9

10 Listening Guide 14.1b: Walking Blues” ROBERT JOHNSON
An Introduction to America’s Music, 2nd Edition Copyright © 2013, W.W. Norton & Company 10

11 Vernacular Roy Acuff The Carter Family

12 Roy Acuff, “Great Speckled Bird” (Acuff, 1938) To the southern traditional tune “I’m Thinking Tonight of My Blue Eyes”

13 Vernacular/Underground
Bob Wills Bill Monroe

14 Bob Wills (with fiddle) leads his Texas Playboys
Bob Wills (with fiddle) leads his Texas Playboys. Visible are alto and tenor saxes, clarinet, bass, and electric guitar (an amplified hollow-body instrument rather than the solid-body guitar popularized since the 1950s). An Introduction to America’s Music, 2nd Edition Copyright © 2013, W.W. Norton & Company 14

15 Listening Guide 14.3: “Corrine, Corrina” BOB WILLS AND HIS TEXAS PLAYBOYS
An Introduction to America’s Music, 2nd Edition Copyright © 2013, W.W. Norton & Company 15

16 Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys, “San Antonio Rose” (Wills, 1938/40)

17 Jazz with Rhythm and Blues?
Duke Ellington Count Basie

18 Duke Ellington, “Mood Indigo” ( Ellington and Barney Bigard, 1930)

19 Rhythm and Blues Torch Singers
Ella Fitzgerald Billie Holiday

20 Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong, “Summertime” (George Gershwin, 1935 for the opera Porgy & Bess) This recording for the 1957 movie of Porgy & Bess

21 Shifting Trends Tin Pan Alley hit makers/composers like George and Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, and Cole Porter provided hits for Broadway and musical stars like Fred Astaire, Bing Crosby, and Judy Garland The Glen Miller Orchestra provided a generation a soundtrack with “Moonlight Serenade”

22 George and Ira Gershwin
Tin Pan Alley George and Ira Gershwin Irving Berlin

23 Tin Pan Cole Porter Fred Astaire

24 Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers, “Night and Day” (Cole Porter, 1934 from the musical The Gay Divorcee)

25 Cross-Over Bing Crosby Judy Garland

26 Bing Crosby, “White Christmas” (Irving Berlin, 1940)

27 Judy Garland, “Somewhere Over the Rainbow” (Harold Arlen and E.Y. Harburg, 1939)

28 Glen Miller Orchestra

29 Glen Miller Orchestra, “In the Mood” (Joe Garland and Andy Razaf, 1938)

30 Technological Trends The radio, the movie musical, the phonograph, and the jukebox all coalesced to make recorded music more readily available for all Americans The recording industry and the radio helped to foment a cross-pollination of styles, and opened the listening audience up to a greater variety of genres The jukebox is the perfect model for the systematic commoditization of music

31 Radio

32 Movie Musical

33 Phonograph

34 Jukebox

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