The Roaring Twenties in Fox Trot Tempo

Perhaps more than any other decade, the history of the 1920s is captured in the popular music of the day.
From Lindbergh to Ford’s Model T, from the Scopes Trial to the Florida land boom and the crossword puzzle craze, the music of the 1920s tells the story.
Martin Bryan traces historical events, from the sublime to the ridiculous, and illustrates them with archival recordings.