KNOW

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• 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…

• 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…

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