Bob Wills: The King of Western Swing

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2002-09

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Evans, Rush

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The Center for Texas Music History

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In the 1930s, America was immersed in the great economic Depression, but it was also experiencing a technological and cultural explosion. The motorized transportation and the new electronic media would forever change the world. And yet, from the Midwest to the Pacific Ocean, we were still a developing, open, agricultural wild land. The music that had been carried through the folk tradition continued being passed down through the families that had worked the land, the families who had faced dust storms and other hindrances to their hard work west of the Mississippi.

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Wills, Bob, Western Wing, Texas, Music, History, Country music

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