International Exhibition of Modern Decorative and Industrial Arts of the most modernist, was the tower of the Tourism Pavilion by Robert Mallet-Stevens. The tower's sleek lines and lack of ornament were an announcement of the international style that would replace Art Deco. In 1929 Mallet-Stevens led the creation of The French Union of Modern Artists which rebelled against the luxurious decorative styles shown at the Exposition, and, along with Le Corbusier, demanded architecture without ornament, built with inexpensive and mass-produced materials. Just inside the main entrance of the Exposition on the Place de la Concorde was the main promenade of the Exposition, with the pavilions of the major
American popular music be considered country, but, as Ace Collins points out, these recordings had "only marginal and very inconsistent" effects on the national music markets, and were only superficially similar to what was then known as "hillbilly music". In addition to Rodgers and the Carters, a musician named Bob Wills was an influential early performer known for a style called Western swing, which was very popular in the 1920s and 30s, and was responsible for bringing a prominent jazz influence to country music. Rhythm and blues (R&B) is a style that arose in the 1930s and 1940s, a rhythmic and uptempo form