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Dance All Night: Those Other Southwestern Swing Bands, Past and Present. By Jean A. Boyd. Lubbock: Texas Tech University Press, 2012.

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  31 October 2013

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References

1 General histories: Ginell, Cary, “The Development of Western Swing,” JEMF Quarterly 20 (1984): 5867Google Scholar; Townsend, Charles R., “A Brief History of Western Swing,” Southern Quarterly 22/3 (1984): 3051Google Scholar; Dunbar, Tom, From Bob Wills to Ray Benson: A History of Western Swing (Austin, TX: Term Publications, 1988)Google Scholar; and Boyd, Jean A., The Jazz of the Southwest: An Oral History of Western Swing (Austin: University of Texas Press, 1998)Google Scholar. Biographies: Boyd, Jean A., “We're the Light Crust Doughboys from Burrus Mill”: The Story of the Light Crust Doughboys (Austin: University of Texas Press, 2003)Google Scholar; Ginell, Cary, Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1994)Google Scholar; Townsend, Charles, San Antonio Rose: The Life and Music of Bob Wills (Urbana: University of Illinois Press, 1976)Google Scholar. Liner notes: Rich Kienzle, Cary Ginell, Tony Russell, Chris Strachwitz, and Charles Townsend are just a few of the authorities on western swing who have written informed liner notes for reissues of older recordings. Reference work: Ginell, Cary and Coffey, Kevin, Discography of Western Swing and Hot String Bands, 1928–1942 (Westport, CT: Greenwood Press, 2001)Google Scholar.