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The Dallas Music Scene: 1920s-1960s

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Dallas Music Scene: 1920s-1960s - Govenar, Alan, and Brakefield, Jay
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For much of the 20th century, Dallas was home to a wide range of vital popular music. By the 1920s, the streets, dance halls, and vaudeville houses of Deep Ellum rang with blues and jazz. Blind Lemon Jefferson was discovered singing the blues on the streets of Deep Ellum but never recorded in Dallas. Beginning in the 1930s, however, artists from Western swing pioneer Bob Wills to blues legend Robert Johnson recorded in a three-story zigzag moderne building at 508 Park Avenue. And from the late 1940s to the mid-1960s, a ...

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Dallas Music Scene: 1920s-1960s 2014, Arcadia Publishing Library Editions

ISBN-13: 9781531676209

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The Dallas Music Scene: 1920s-1960s 2014, Arcadia Publishing (SC)

ISBN-13: 9781467131513

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