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  • Collection: American Pop music versus American Folk Music

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Here are a list of popular songs from later into the 30's.

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The songs featured in this list commonly desire for better days, and explore their despair. There is a disparity between the songs since they are just coming from the ritzy 1920's Puttin on the Ritz is paired with Worried Man Blues. The list…

Thanks For The Memory by Bing Crosby

During the depression of which Grapes of Wrath is set the popular music of the time were what was leftover from the 20's which glorified the upper class "American Dream." The popular songs of the 1930's were from Gershwin, Irving Berlin and Cole…
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