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Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit (Voice in the American West)
Gail Folkins
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Description for Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit (Voice in the American West)
Hardcover. Texas shows its best moves in dance halls that dot its landscape. Wherever they've found fiddlers and dance floors, Texans have been tickled into motion. And for a century and a half, they've been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state. This title celebrates how these halls bring people together and foster joy. Series: Voice in the American West. Num Pages: 212 pages, 132 duotone photos. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; ASD; HBTB. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 287 x 210 x 21. Weight in Grams: 1080.
Texas shows its best moves in dance halls that dot its landscape. Wherever they've found fiddlers and dance floors, Texans have been tickled into motion. And for a century and a half, they've been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state. Writing about the eighteen she knows best, Gail Folkins celebrates how these halls still bring people together and foster joy. Folkins etches portraits of proprietors who give space for music and dancing, of musicians who furnish the soundtrack for dramas and comedies that play out across hardwood or concrete floors, and of people who come to dance, ... Read more
Texas shows its best moves in dance halls that dot its landscape. Wherever they've found fiddlers and dance floors, Texans have been tickled into motion. And for a century and a half, they've been kicking up dust in dance halls across the state. Writing about the eighteen she knows best, Gail Folkins celebrates how these halls still bring people together and foster joy. Folkins etches portraits of proprietors who give space for music and dancing, of musicians who furnish the soundtrack for dramas and comedies that play out across hardwood or concrete floors, and of people who come to dance, ... Read more
Product Details
Publisher
Texas Tech University Press
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2007
Series
Voice in the American West
Condition
New
Weight
1078g
Number of Pages
212
Place of Publication
Texas, United States
ISBN
9780896726031
SKU
V9780896726031
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Reviews for Texas Dance Halls: A Two-Step Circuit (Voice in the American West)
...Texas Dance Halls is a commendable work. Two young artists work hard to seek their voices. James Collett, The Permian Historical Annual, Vol. 48, 2008