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Dance All Night - Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present (Hardcover)
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Dance All Night - Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present (Hardcover)
Series: Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest
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Its strains may be haunting, but western swing is alive and on the
upswing, enjoying a renaissance among musicians too young to recall
or even comprehend its heyday. For them, the term may evoke the
nationally known country music of Bob Wills and his Texas Playboys
and the Spade Cooley Band. Yet on the local level, western swing
bands dominated the airways and dance halls in every town and rural
setting throughout the Southwest in the 1930s and by the 1940s had
spread their influence and music to California. Jean A. Boyd
presents the history and music of those bands that did not garner
national fame, but were local sensations to thousands of
southwesterners hungry for diversion and good dancing during the
depression and World War II. Devoted fans who travel the festival
circuit will surely appreciate the histories and recollections Boyd
has carefully compiled, while musicologists will welcome her
musical analysis and her transcriptions of recorded performances.
Performers, as well, may learn new licks and tricks from the
ubiquitous swing jazz artists of a time not yet forgotten,
preserved here for another generation's enjoyment and edification.
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