RAGTIME, the forerunner of modern popular music, had its origin in the honky-tonks and dives of New Orleans and was first introduced into the big time by King Oliver, one of the greatest of his day.

     But American popular music is not the result of one man nor of one era. Many men played a prominent part in bringing popular music--from ragtime to boogie-woogie—to its height of national acclaim. Paul Whiteman, Jerome Kern, Cole Porter, Irving Berlin, King Oliver, Louis Armstrong, W. C. Handy, Meade Lux Lewis, Duke Ellington, Ferde Grofe, George Gershwin, Rodgers and Hart, Benny Goodman, Raymond Scott, to mention some of the more outstanding figures, are more than mileposts the progress of American popular music. The account of their lives and their contributions to this particular branch of make up a most important record which David Ewen has set to words in Men of Popular Music.

     This special edition of MEN OF POPULAR MUSIC by David Ewen has been made available to the Armed Forces of the United States through an arrangement with the original publisher, Ziff-Davis Publishing Company, Chicago.

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