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Western Swing Band

Richard A. Peterson

Richard A. Peterson

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume II : Performance and Production

Continuum, 2003

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...Western swing bands developed during the early 1930s in the United States to provide music for the dance venues of the oil boomtowns of the southwestern states of Oklahoma and Texas, where young couples raised on hillbilly music wanted...

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Tulsa, OK

Steve Higgins

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Steve Jones

Steve Jones

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IV : Locations: North America

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: city – 393,049 (2000); metropolitan area – 803,235 (2000) Located virtually in the center of the United States, Tulsa has been a musical crossroads and stepping-stone for jazz, blues, country and rock...

Dallas/Fort Worth, TX

Ramiro Burr

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Derek Delgado

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David Horn

David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of IASPM (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music). He was Director of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. Together with the blues scholar Paul Oliver he first proposed the idea of EPMOW in the 1980s, and has worked on the project since that time. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IV : Locations: North America

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: Dallas – 1,188,580; Fort Worth – 534,694; metropolitan area – 5,222,000 (2000) The second-largest metropolitan area in Texas, the metroplex of Dallas/Fort Worth is situated in the northeast central...

Western Swing

Jean A. Boyd

Jean A. Boyd

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Western Swing, a hybrid form of country jazz, was extremely popular in the southwestern USA in the 1930s and 1940s, and continues to be performed in the twenty-first century. The label ‘western swing’ was attached to the genre in the 1940s...

Texas

Rick Koster

Rick Koster

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David Horn

David Horn was a founding editor of the journal Popular Music and a founding member of IASPM (The International Association for the Study of Popular Music). He was Director of the Institute of Popular Music at the University of Liverpool from 1988 until his retirement in 2002. Together with the blues scholar Paul Oliver he first proposed the idea of EPMOW in the 1980s, and has worked on the project since that time. Author affiliation details are correct at time of print publication.

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume IV : Locations: North America

Continuum, 2016

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...Population: 21,779,893 (2002) Located on the Gulf Coast and bordered by Mexico, New Mexico, Oklahoma, Arkansas and Louisiana, Texas is the largest of the continental United States and second only to Alaska...

Country Music

Diane Pecknold

Diane Pecknold

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Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World Volume VIII : Genres: North America

The Continuum International, 2012

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...Country music is an extremely diverse genre unified more by its lyrical tropes, imagery, audience and institutional history than by stylistic coherence. The term ‘country music’ did not appear as the consensus genre label until the early...