Day: September 27, 2012

Front facade of Houghton Library

That Toddlin’ Time

Nineteen thirty was a mighty good year for social dance.  Sure, the economic world had crashed in 1929, but the Depression hadn’t hit yet, and the growth of radio in the 1920s coupled with the rise of the Talkies since The Jazz Singer in 1927 insured that the popular dance music of the day inundated…