What is swing? The Big Band Sound? The Boogie Woogie craze? Find out in this toe-tapping, finger-snapping exploration of the popular music of the 1930s, featuring songs by Duke Ellington, Cole Porter, Fats Waller, George Gershwin and many others. Peter Muir started his professional musical life at the age of eight as a chorister in Westminster Abbey. He later studied piano and composition at the Royal College of Music, London and went on to earn his doctorate at City College in New York. A noted scholar of American vernacular music and author of the critically acclaimed Long Lost Blues: The Rise of Blues in American Popular Culture, he has performed at festivals and concerts across the US and around the world.

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