music from 1920s - 1930s?

[meggo]

i'm teaching history this semester for the first time, and i think it would be fun to incorporate music where possible.

we're just starting the 1920s, so far i've come across bessie smith, george gershwin and duke ellington [these are the ones that i recognize].

any suggestions? it is a canadian history course but i imagine american music is relevant.

[Jaimoe]

Robert Johnson or any of the early Delta blues players would do.

Jelly Roll Morton is key link for Rag-time to jazz.

As for Canadian music, do a quick Google search.

[bouche]

Al Jolson

[skelter]

Django Reindhart, Woody Guthrie, Ella Fitzgerald ...

[Jaimoe]

I'm sure if you did a little digging, Nova Scotia and Newfoundland probably has tons of great folk tunes written for and about them in the 20's and 30's. I'm not sure the exact date of this Canadian classic:

I's The B'y

I's the b'y that builds the boat

And I's the b'y that sails her

I's the b'y that catches the fish

And takes them home to Lizer.

Chorus

Hip yer partner, Sally Tibbo'

Hip yer partner, Sally Brown

Fogo, Twillingate, Morton's Harbour

All around the circle!

Sods and rinds to cover your flake

Cake and tea for supper

Codfish in the spring o' the year

Fried in maggoty butter.

I don't want your maggoty fish

That's no good for winter

I could buy as good as that

Down in Bonavista.

I took Lizer to a dance

And faith, but she could travel

And every step that she did take

Was up to her knees in gravel.

Susan White, she's out of sight

Her petticoat wants a border

Old Sam Oliver in the dark

He kissed her in the corner.