Driskill Hotel
604 Brazos St.
Austin, TX
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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…
Paul Whiteman and Duke Ellington, 1936in “Athens on the Colorado: The Dominance of the Universities, 1929-1946”Two of the most well-known bandleaders in the country visited the Texas capital in 1936, highlighting a great deal about pop music and segregation in Austin.Read more…
Gene Ramey: A Snapshot of Music in East Austin between 1910 and the early 1930sin “Athens on the Colorado: The Dominance of the Universities, 1929-1946”An oral history with the Austin-born bassist Gene Ramey from the 1970s tells us significant things about music in East Austin in the first third of the twentieth century.Read more…
Swing in Austinin “Athens on the Colorado: The Dominance of the Universities, 1929-1946”Austin was one of the earliest cities to experience the cultural phenomenon of Swing.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…
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…