Timeline of trends in music (1930-1939)

Timeline of trends in music
Before 1799	1800-1899
1900-1909	1910-1919
1920-1929	1930-1939
1940-1949	1950-1959
1960-1969	1970-1979
1980-1989	1990-1999
2000-present
List of musical events
United States (To 1930 - to 1970 - To present)
Cuba

1930 in music

• Music of the Bahamas
  • A sponge disease decimates the sponge fishing industry in the Bahamas, beginning the decline of ant'ems, a type of work song
• Music of Cuba
  • The rumba's popularity begins to spread in Cuba and abroad, while Arsenio Rodriguez develops the conjunto band, using the septeto as a basis and Don Aspiazu's Havana Orchestra brings "El Manicero" to the US, where it becomes a major hit; these changes signal the roots of salsa
  • The orquestra tipica dies out
• Music of the Dominican Republic
  • Dominican Rafael Trujillo uses several merengue bands for his presidential campaign, which brings the sound to new areas and inspires merengue radio stations to begin broadcasting
• Music of Indonesia
  • The developing film industry incorporates kroncong, helping to popularize it
• Music of Mexico
  • The Golden Age of Corridos ends, while the accordion begins to become standard due to its use by Narciso Martínez and Santiago Jimenez
• Music of Norway
  • Composers like David Monrad Johansen, Geirr Tveitt, Bjarne Brustad, Eivind Groven, Klaus Egge, Ludvig Irgens Jensen, Harald Sæverud begin to develop a nationalist form of Norwegian classical music
• Music of the United States
  • Led by musicians like Sol Hoopii, Hawaiian steel guitar folk music's popularity in the United States becomes widespread, influencing country music, the country blues and other genres

1931 in music

• International trends
  • EMI opens Abbey Road Studios, the world's largest recording studio
  • Adolph Rickenbacker invents the electric guitar
• Music of India
  • The success of India's first talkie, Alam Ara, marks the beginning of filmi music
• Music of Mexico
  • As rural Mexicans begin moving into the cities, trumpets are added to traditional mariachi bands, and the music develops a more pronounced nationalist bent; Silvestre Vargas soon becomes the most popular mariachi performer
• Music of the United Kingdom
  • The formation of the Clarsach Society starts a renaissance in the Scottish harp
• Music of the United States
  • Gene Autry's "Silver Haired Daddy of Mine" popularizes honky tonk music
  • Fletcher Henderson and Duke Ellington have begun recording swing

1932 in music

• International trends
  • A pan-Arab conference of musicians meets in Cairo, agreeing to cooperate in revitalizing regional Arab styles of music
• Music of Greece
  • Márkos Vamvakáris begins his career playing a style of Greek folk music called rembetika
• Music of Tanzania
  • Young people, enamored of Cuban rumba, form dance clubs, such as the Dar Es Salaam Jazz Band
• Music of Thailand
  • Western music, especially jazz, is extremely popular
• Music of the United States
  • Folklorists John and Alan Lomax begin their series of influential folk music recordings for the Library of Congress; most importantly, they record Woody Guthrie
  • Thomas Dorsey's "Precious Lord" revolutionizes gospel music and founds a Chicago-based scene for the genre
  • Western swing evolves, due to the work of Bob Wills and Milton Brown

1933 in music

• Music of Cuba
  • Ignacio Pineiro's Echale Salsita is the first use of salsa to describe Cuban dance music, of which rumba is beginning to gain international renown
• Music of Mexico
  • The campaign of Lázaro Cárdenas helps move mariachi into the mainstream; he will be the first to officially subsidize the music
• Music of South Africa
  • Eric Gallo's Brunswick Gramophone House makes its first masters, beginning the South African music industry

1934 in music

• Music of Haiti
  • American troops leave Haiti, and groups like Les Jazz des Jeunes begin their rise to fame incorporated Western, African, native and American music
• Music of Nigeria
  • The first recordings of palm-wine music begin to produce stars like Ojoge Daniel and Speedy Araba
• Music of Trinidad and Tobago
  • Atilla the Hun and Roaring Lion sign to major record labels in New York City; they will become the first stars of calypso music
• Music of the United States
  • John and Alan Lomax discover a precursor to rock and roll while recording gospel music in the South
  • Bill Monroe's "Kentucky Waltz" begins popularizing bluegrass music
  • Cuban rumba begins to enter the American mainstream

1935 in music

• Music of South Africa
  • Guitars, banjos and concertinas are added to marabi music
• Music of the United States
  • The unprecedented success of Benny Goodman, Artie Shaw, Glenn Miller and Count Basie marks the peak of mainstream commercial emergence of swing, jazz and big band music
  • Woody Guthrie writes The Dust Bowl Ballads, becoming the first in the American singer-songwriter tradition

1936 in music

• Music of Trinidad and Tobago
  • An orchestra of frying pans, oil drums and dustbin lids recalls earlier styles of makeshift percussion music and eventually evolve into steel pan music
• Music of the United States
  • Artists like Robert Johnson, Charley Patton and Son House innovate what comes to be known as Delta blues
  • Close harmony brother duets are popular; these include the Delmore Brothers and Blue Sky Boys
  • Roy Acuff leads the developing Nashville Sound in country music

1937 in music

• Music of the United States
  • The Golden Gate Quartet reaches the peak of their popularity; they are the first major gospel group
  • Big bands dominate American popular music

1938 in music

• International trends
  • Sergei Eisenstein's film Alexander Nevsky features extended scenes of battles choreographed to a score by Sergei Prokofiev, setting new standards for the use of music as a part of cinema
• Music of Cuba
  • Desi Arnaz popularizes the conga throughout Cuba, Europe and the United States
• Music of the United States
  • Slovenian-American Frankie Yankovich begins his recording career; he will become the king of polka for most of the 20th century
  • Boogie woogie breaks into the mainstream with the success of Meade Lux Lewis, Albert Ammons, and Pete Johnson
  • Bill Monroe forms the Blue Grass Boys, creating a fusion of Appalachian folk music with blues, polka and other genres from around the world
  • O. C. Cash founds SPEBSQSA, the barbershop harmony society; women's society follows shortly; barbershop quartets become a popular music staple, particularly in radio commercials

1939 in music

• International trends
  • Kabylian-Algerian immigrants to Paris such as Cheikh Nourredin and Slimane Azem incorporate instruments like violins and banjos to Kabylian folk music
• Music of Colombia
  • Cumbia begins to move from rural areas to the urban middle-class, displacing musica de la interior as the most popular form of music in Colombia
• Music of Cuba
  • Mambo music begins to develop in Cuba
• Music of Portugal
  • Amália Rodrigues' career begins; she becomes the most influential Portuguese musician of the 20th century
• Music of Puerto Rico
  • Plena becomes popular among the island's jibaro artists; this movement is spearheaded by Rafael Hernandez (El Canario)
• Music of South Africa
  • Solomon Linda's Original Evening Birds' "Mbube" is probably the first African recording to sell more than 100,000 copies
• Music of the United States
  • Dixieland jazz becomes a mainstream commercial force with the success of Lu Watters & the Yerba Buena Jazz Band