Similarities Between The 1920s And 1930s
During the 1920s and 1930s, many musicians choose to ignore the great depression and didn’t write many songs about it. During the great depression the unemployment rate was at 60 percent in the united states. Many people were going though very hard times and had very little of anything. Just as most people listen to happy music when they are sad to make them happy, the musicians of the 1920s and 1930s wrote upbeat and happy music to raise peoples spirts during the hard times. Modern popular is very similar to that of the great depression, when the county is facing hard times most tend to ignore the problem, but few chose to face it and use the emotions that they feel during the hard times to create music about the difficult situations. The