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.

Binding Type: Hardcover
Publisher: Arcadia Publishing Library Editions
Published: 06/09/2014
ISBN: 9781531676193
Pages: 130
Weight: 0.91lbs
Size: 9.61h x 6.69w x 0.38d