Its roots went earlier, and performers like Burl Ives, Woody Guthrie, Lead Belly, and Oscar Brand had enjoyed a limited general popularity in the 1930s and 1940s.

Although Latin Jazz is most popularly associated with artists from the Caribbean ( particularly Cuba ) and Brazil, young Mexican Americans have played a role in its development over the years, going back to the 1930s and early 1940s, the era of the zoot suit, when young Mexican American musicians in Los Angeles and San Jose began to experiment with banda, a Jazz-like Mexican music that has grown recently in popularity among Mexican Americans such as Jenni Rivera.

During the 1920s and 1930s, Aimee Semple McPherson was a controversial faith healer of growing popularity during the Great Depression.

Lindy Hop entered mainstream American culture in the 1930s, gaining popularity through multiple sources.

The 1930s through the 1960s are considered to be the golden age of the musical film, when the genre's popularity was at its highest in the Western world.

Ultimately, efforts to curb the unconstrained growth of tourist courts were futile as motor courts ( as motels were called in the 1930s and 1940s ) grew in number and popularity.

At their peak of popularity in the 1920s and 1930s, the most successful pulps could sell up to one million copies per issue.

The League rose to popularity in the late 1930s.

The popularity of the benshi was one reason why silent films persisted well into the 1930s in Japan.

In the United States, track racing reached a peak of popularity in the 1930s when six-day races were held in Madison Square Garden in New York.

Mickey's popularity would subsequently skyrocket in the early 1930s.

However, during the 1920s and 1930s, the Yankees ' popularity was such that crowds in excess of 80, 000 were not uncommon.

During the 1930s, Ellington's popularity continued to increase – largely as a result of the promotional skills of Mills – who got more than his fair share of co-composer credits.

The German-American Bund and similar groups achieved limited popularity in the 1930s ( at one point staging a rally with over 20, 000 people ), but rapidly faded with the onset of World War II.

In the early 1930s, cartoon-style saucy postcards became widespread, and at the peak of their popularity the sale of saucy postcards reached a massive 16 million a year.

At the peak of her popularity in the late 1930s, Colbert earned $ 150, 000 a film.

Although her domestic popularity was undiminished through the early 1930s, high profits from her films after Queen Christina in 1933 depended on the foreign market.

This was driven not by diminished popularity, but by the hard 1930s economic reality.

By the late 1930s the Western film was widely regarded as a ' pulp ' genre in Hollywood, but its popularity was dramatically revived in 1939 by the release of John Ford's landmark Western adventure Stagecoach, which became one of the biggest hits of the year released though United Artists, and made John Wayne a mainstream screen star in the wake of a decade of headlining B westerns.

* Given the popularity of the radio show at the time many catch phrases appear frequently in Warner Bros. cartoon shorts from the 1930s and 1940s, such as Molly's " T ' ain't funny, McGee!

Dawson Springs, Kentucky, in the southwestern part of the county, began to thrive in the 1880s as a health resort, but its popularity had faded by the time of the Great Depression of the 1930s.

In the 1930s with the growing international political and economic crisis, the ARP began to regain its popularity, under the leadership of Colijn.

His popularity faded in the swing music era of the 1930s, and by the 1940s Whiteman was semi-retired from music.

Cigars lost their popularity to cigarettes between the two World Wars, and in the 1930s the Great Depression again brought the town's expansion to a halt.

Like many other East Coast resorts, Its popularity gradually declined, starting in the 1930s, as first automobiles and then airplanes made possible a wider selection of vacation sites.

In the early 1930s Pearl Peck moved away from the Stampfli Ranch and moved to San Francisco where she met and married David " Bud " Strong, an owner of a large nursery garden.

A mock air attack on Pearl Harbor during war games in the 1930s was judged to have been a success.

Through the 1930s, with increasing Japanese militarism, the Fleet Faction gradually gained ascendancy over the Treaty Faction and came to dominate the Navy General Staff, which pushed through the attack on Pearl Harbor against the resistance of the Navy Ministry.

However the Navy General Staff came to be dominated by the Fleet faction, and gradually gained ascendancy in the 1930s with increasing Japanese militarism. The Navy General Staff pushed through the attack on Pearl Harbor against the wishes of the more diplomatic Navy Ministry.

Along with Pearl Buck's The Good Earth, it was the most influential book on Western understanding and sympathy for China in the 1930s.

Smith was one of Tim Buck's most vocal defenders in the early 1930s, when Buck was detained and nearly killed in the Kingston Penitentiary.

His reception remained warmer in America than Britain, and he continued to publish novels and short stories, but by the late 1930s the audience for Milne's grown-up writing had largely vanished: he observed bitterly in his autobiography that a critic had said that the hero of his latest play (" God help it ") was simply " Christopher Robin grown up ... what an obsession with me children are become!

This is the diagnosis used in Robert Graves ' Claudius novels, first published in the 1930s.

The novels are set in Britain contemporaneously with when they were written, from the early 1920s to the late 1930s.

Significant modernist literary works continued to be created in the 1920s and 1930s, including further novels by Marcel Proust, Virginia Woolf, Robert Musil, and Dorothy Richardson.

Their novels, which were written and structured in the genre's 1930s style, feature protagonists antithetical to James Bond.

Category: 1930s fantasy novels

In the previous decade she had become one of the century ’ s most famous feminist writers with three more novels, and a series of essays including the moving late memoir “ Sketch of the Past ”, It was also in the 1930s that Desmond MacCarthy became perhaps the most widely read – and heard – literary critic with his columns in The Sunday Times and his broadcasts with the BBC.

The novel lies somewhere between parody and homage in its deliberate use of the style of the 1930s ' pulp novels.

Most French dramatists of the 1930s and 1940s, including Anouilh's most significant contemporary influence, Giraudoux, not only wrote for the stage but also composed poetry, novels, or essays.

What confuses many dealers and new collectors today is that though the thick books were still in print as late as the 1930s, they carry the original copyright date of the story, often as early as the late nineteenth century, leading some to assume they have original dime novels when the books are only distantly related.

In the late 1930s and 40s, British County Court judge Arthur Alexander Gordon Clark ( 1900 – 1958 ) published a number of detective novels under the alias Cyril Hare in which he made use of his profoundly extensive knowledge of the English legal system.

Gladys Mitchell rivalled Agatha Christie for UK sales in the 1930s and 1940s but only one of her 66 novels remains in print despite a BBC television series of the The Mrs Bradley Mysteries in 1999.

He wrote 11 novels as well as short stories, plays, and radio and television scripts, most of which focused on unemployment in the Rhondda Valley in the 1930s.

Most of the novels are about intrigue in Pacific Rim countries in the 1930s.

By the late 1930s, when Ellery Queen — author and character — moved to Hollywood to try movie scriptwriting, the tone of the novels began to change along with the detective's character.

Category: 1930s science fiction novels

Starting in the 1930s, the concept of a crime-fighters, superheroes, and vigilantes ( and their adversaries ) adopting secret identities became more widespread in dime novels, pulp magazines, comic books, old-time radio dramas, movie serials, and other popular fiction.

Category: 1930s fantasy novels

The novels and short stories of Rose Wilder Lane during the 1930s also represented her creative and literary peak.

Henry Miller assumed a unique place in American Literature in the 1930s when his semi-autobiographical novels, written and published in Paris, were banned from the US.

A division of the Creative Arts Book Company of Berkeley, California, Black Lizard specialized in presenting rediscovered forgotten classic crime fiction writers and novels from the decades between the 1930s and the 1960s.

In the 1930s, nearly half of the film adaptations of his novels were made.

Category: 1930s science fiction novels

Category: 1930s science fiction novels

Japp's career in the Poirot novels extends into the 1930s but, like Hastings, he disappeared from Christie's writing thereafter.