Historic Dance Halls of East Central Texas (Paperback) (ISBN-13: 9781467131506)

Texas dance halls are iconic structures that have played a prominent role in the state's culture from its earliest stages. They became central institutions in the earliest European settlements and provided these immigrant communities with a common, central space in which to build new ways of life in a new land. The settlement patterns of the mostly German, Czech, Polish, and other central European migrants of this period gave East Central Texas the state's greatest concentration of dance halls. Thousands of these halls were built throughout the 19th and early 20th centuries, but at present, their numbers have dwindled considerably, and many are at risk.

Author: Stephen Dean
ISBN-10: 1467131504
ISBN-13: 9781467131506
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing (SC)
Language: English
Published: 06/09/2014
Pages: 128
Format: Paperback
Weight: 0.70lbs
Size: 9.24h x 6.64w x 0.32d