Many people probably wouldn't have made it through the 1930's without music. The people who listened to the music said it was their way of life (Microsoft music). Music helped people forget about all the bad and horrible things going on around them, it let them escape their day to day troubles if just for a little while. The kind of music most people listened to was the high beat "Swing". Swing was said to …showed first 75 words of 746 total…

…showed last 75 words of 746 total…light classical music, Whitman's orchestra also played jazzy pieces by American composers such as George Gershwin. I believe that these artists I have talked about were some of the most important people during the Depression. When people were sad and nothing was going right they always had their radio to turn on. Without the good times jazz brought to them, who knows how the Depression would have turned out without the music of the 1930's.