Steve Gardner and His Hokum Kings
Steve Gardner and His Hokum Kings sometimes appeared as ‘Steve Gardner’, ‘Steve Gardner and His 10 Hokum Kings’, ‘Steve Gardner and His Ever Popular Hokum Kings’, ‘Steve Gardner and his Famous (10) Hokum Kings (10)’, ‘Steve Gardner and his Greater (10) Hokum Kings (10)’, ‘Steve Gardner and His Greater Hokum Kings’, ‘Steve Gardner and His Orchestra’, ‘Steve Gardner Hokum Kings’, ‘Steve Gardner Orchestra’, ‘Steve Gardner’s “Hokum Kings”’, ‘Steve Gardner’s 11-Orchestra-11’, ‘Steve Gardner’s Band’, ‘Steve Gardner’s Hokum Kings’, ‘Steve Gardner’s Lone Star Orchestra’, ‘Steve Gardner’s Orchestra’, ‘Steve Gardner’s Troubadours’, or ‘Gardner’s Hokum Kings’.
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The New Audiences: Demographics in Austin, 1930-1950in “The Wild Side of Life: The Rise of the Honky Tonks, 1940-1950”Demographic change and World War Two created important new music audiences in Austin during the 1940s.Read more…
Introduction: Athens on the Coloradoin “Athens on the Colorado: The Dominance of the Universities, 1929-1946”Although a largely untold story, Depression-era Austin was home to a significant number of local territory orchestras and dances with major Swing and Sweet bands.Read more…
Territory Music: Local Bandsin “Athens on the Colorado: The Dominance of the Universities, 1929-1946”The major popular music ensembles for public dances in Austin were territory bands, regional bands that created a unique Southwest lineage of jazz and dance music.Read more…
The “Germans” and the All University Dances, 1901-1946in “Athens on the Colorado: The Dominance of the Universities, 1929-1946”One of the largest congregations of young Texans in the state, UT provided the biggest source of live modern dance music and Swing in Austin.Read more…
Western Swing in Austin, Part II: Two Predecessors and a Context, 1930-1942in “The Wild Side of Life: The Rise of the Honky Tonks, 1940-1950”Austin had two very different variations of “Western Swing” in the 1930s.Read more…