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Dance All Night: Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present (Grover E. Murray Studies in the American Southwest)

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Its strains is also haunting, but western swing is alive and at 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 at the local level, western swing bands dominated the airways and dance halls in each and every town and rural setting all the way through 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 didn’t garner national fame, but were local sensations to thousands of southwesterners hungry for diversion and good dancing all the way through the depression and World War II. Devoted fans who shuttle the festival circuit will unquestionably appreciate the histories and recollections Boyd has carefully compiled, even as 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 any other generation’s enjoyment and edification.

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