Editing 1930s (section)

===Music===
{{Main|1930s in music}}

* "[[Swing (genre)|Swing]]" music starts becoming popular from 1933, the dawn of the [[Swing era]]. It gradually replaces the sweet form of [[Jazz]] that had been popular for the first half of the decade.
* "[[Delta Blues]]" music, the first recorded in the late 1920s, was expanded by [[Robert Johnson]] and [[Skip James]], two of the most important and influential acts of "[[Blues]]" genre.
* [[Django Reinhardt]] and [[Stéphane Grappelli]] led the development of [[Gypsy jazz]].
* [[Sergei Rachmaninoff]] composed [[Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini|''Rhapsody on a Theme of Paganini'']] in [[1934 in music|1934]].
* [[Charlie Christian]] becomes the first electric guitarist to be in a multiracial band with [[Benny Goodman]] and [[Lionel Hampton]] in 1939.<ref>[http://www.allmusic.com/artist/p91178 Robert Johnson Biography] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20110324092545/http://allmusic.com/artist/P91178 |date=2011-03-24 }}. Allmusic</ref>
* [[Tango music|Tango]] reaches its highest popularity worldwide and [[Carlos Gardel]] records several of the most famous tangos, such as "[[Por una Cabeza|Por Una Cabeza]]"
The most popular music of each year was as follows:<ref>{{Cite web |title=1930s Music: What Songs Were Most Popular? |url=https://www.retrowaste.com/1930s/music-in-the-1930s/ |access-date=2022-11-23 |language=en-US}}</ref>
* 1930: "[[Body and Soul (1930 song)|Body and Soul]]" (music by [[Johnny Green]], lyrics by [[Edward Heyman]], [[Robert Sour]] and [[Frank Eyton]])
* 1931: "[[Life Is Just a Bowl of Cherries]]" (music by [[Ray Henderson]], lyrics by [[Lew Brown]])
* 1932: "[[Night and Day (song)|Night and Day]]" ([[Cole Porter]])
* 1933: "[[It's Only a Paper Moon]]" (music by [[Harold Arlen]], lyrics by [[Yip Harburg]] and [[Billy Rose]])
* 1934: "[[Blue Moon (1934 song)|Blue Moon]]" (written by [[Richard Rodgers]] and [[Lorenz Hart]])
* 1935: "[[Begin the Beguine]]" ([[Cole Porter]])
* 1936: "[[I'm an Old Cowhand (From the Rio Grande)|I'm an Old Cowhand]]" (written by [[Johnny Mercer]], sung by [[Bing Crosby]])
* 1937: "[[A Foggy Day]]" (composed by [[George Gershwin]], with lyrics by [[Ira Gershwin]])
* 1938: "Chiquita Banana"
* 1939: "[[All the Things You Are]]" (composed by [[Jerome Kern]] with lyrics written by [[Oscar Hammerstein II]])