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  2. Category:Food and drink introduced in the 1930s - Wikipedia

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    Food and drink introduced in 1938 (1 C, 1 P) Pages in category "Food and drink introduced in the 1930s" The following 3 pages are in this category, out of 3 total.

  3. Category:1930s fads and trends - Wikipedia

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    1930s in food (3 C, 1 P) M. 1930s in music (28 C, 4 P) S. 1930s slang (2 P) T. ... Pages in category "1930s fads and trends" The following 3 pages are in this ...

  4. American cuisine - Wikipedia

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    Fats and oils made from animals served to cook many colonial foods. Many homes had a sack made of deerskin filled with bear oil for cooking, while solidified bear fat resembled shortening. Rendered pork fat made the most popular cooking medium, especially from the cooking of bacon. Pork fat was used more often in the southern colonies than the ...

  5. Glossary of early twentieth century slang in the United States

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    Notes Works cited References External links 0-9 S.S. Kresge Lunch Counter and Soda Fountain, about 1920 86 Main article: 86 1. Soda-counter term meaning an item was no longer available 2. "Eighty-six" means to discard, eliminate, or deny service A abe's cabe 1. Five dollar bill 2. See fin, a fiver, half a sawbuck absent treatment Engaging in dance with a cautious partner ab-so-lute-ly ...

  6. Novelty song - Wikipedia

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    Novelty songs achieved great popularity during the 1920s and 1930s. [1] [2] They had a resurgence of interest in the 1950s and 1960s. [3] The term arose in Tin Pan Alley to describe one of the major divisions of popular music; the other two divisions were ballads and dance music. [4]

  7. Timeline of music in the United States (1920–1949) - Wikipedia

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    Late 1930s music trends The radio industry matures, beginning to more successfully focus on increasing market share rather than "abstract cultural good", diminishing the "demand for fine-art music and correspondingly (increasing) the demand for popular music". [59] Big band swing music makes jazz a part of mainstream American pop. The ...

  8. 1930s - Wikipedia

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    Cole Porter was a popular music artist in the 1930s, with two of his songs, "Night and Day" and "Begin the Beguine" becoming No. 1 hits in 1932 and 1935 respectively. The latter song was of the Swing genre, which had begun to emerge as the most popular form of music in the United States since 1933.

  9. Music history of the United States (1900–1940) - Wikipedia

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    Trinidadian calypso, Argentinian tango and Dominican merengue and other styles influenced American popular music. Hawaiian music (especially slack-key guitar) enjoyed an early vogue in the 1910s, influencing the developing genre of country music (this is the source of the steel guitar sound that is characteristic of modern country).