Women’s Gym
Women’s Gym appears in 33 performances from 1929 and 1930.
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The Texas Union Project, Texas Oil, and the New Dealin “Athens on the Colorado: The Dominance of the Universities, 1929-1946”An institution suffused in the spirit of the New Deal, the Texas Union was the main social and cultural hub for the University of Texas during the 1930s and 1940s.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…