James J Nott.

James J Nott. Music for the People: Popular Music and Dance in Interwar Britain. (Oxford Historical Monographs.) of the present day York: Oxford University Pres 2002 Pp xiv, 274 $4995 ISBN 0-19-925407-9

Popular music was everywhere in Britain in the inter-war years, thanks in part to the modern mechanical media (the gramophone, the radio, and the talking films), and dancing became united of the chief pastimes of the young. The dance halls were an exception to the general propensity for the British public to become listeners and consumer rather than performers and participants. Technological

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