Music for the people : popular music and dance in interwar Britain /

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Author / Creator:	Nott, James J.
Imprint:	Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002.
Description:	1 online resource (xi, 274 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates) : illustrations.
Language:	English
Series:	Oxford historical monographs Oxford historical monographs.
Subject:	Popular music -- Great Britain -- 1921-1930. Popular music -- Great Britain -- 1931-1940. Popular music -- Social aspects -- Great Britain. Popular music. Popular music -- Social aspects. Great Britain. Electronic books.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11143502

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ISBN:	9780191554971 0191554979 9780199254071 0199254079
Digital file characteristics:	text file PDF
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 245-253) and indexes. Print version record.
Summary:	This lively and readable study explores popular music between the wars, the era of Noel Coward and Ivor Novello, Gracie Fields and George Formby. James J. Nott tells the story from the days of the jazz mania of the 1920s to the outbreak of the Second World War. He examines the huge popularity of dance halls such as the fabled Hammersmith Palais, and concludes with a fascinating checklist of the most popular songs.
Other form:	Print version: Nott, James J. Music for the people. Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2002 0199254079

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