Metro Music: Celebrating a Century of the Trinity River Groove

by William Williams and Gene Fowler

Metro Music explores the musical history of Dallas, Fort Worth, and the surrounding area from the nineteenth century to the 1960s and the continuing echoes of that transformative decade. With nearly five hundred images, many previously unpublished, the book moves through genres and eras that include old-time fiddlers and string bands, singing cowboys, the blues, western swing, gospel, country-western, jazz, ragtime, big bands, Tejano and Tex-Mex,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0875657710
• ISBN13: 9780875657714
• Release Date: March 2021
• Publisher: Texas Christian University Press
• Length: 270 Pages
• Weight: 2.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 8.4" x 10.9"