Cowtown Birthplace of Western Swing
Description: This groundbreaking documentary traces the origins, development, and legacy of Western Swing, utilizing original and contemporary voices.
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The quintessential story of America ’s most joyous dance music. Western swing got its start “Where The West Begins ” in a ramshackle dancehall in Fort Worth, Texas during the depths of the Great Depression. It evolved with a spongelike ability to absorb a myriad of styles from black, white, rural and urban influences to create an intoxicating musical gumbo. This groundbreaking documentary traces its origins, development and legacy utilizing original and contemporary voices from a cast of legendary stars
The Birth & History of Western Swing is an ambitious film project that seeks to document an important development in 20th century popular music that has yet to be examined in a feature-length study. The reasons why such a project hasn’t yet been done, after 90 years since its birth in a ramshackle dancehall on the outskirts of Fort Worth, Texas, are what make it uniquely important in American music. Western swing combined elements of black, white, and ethnic music styles in a way that historians have never
In a 1997 review of “The Complete Recordings of Milton Brown & his Musical Brownies,” the late journalist Robert Palmer said, “Their music has proved too jazzy and swinging to win them a prominent place in the annals of country music, too “hillbilly” to be taken seriously by jazz scholars, too full of regional quirks to be accepted as mainstream pop.” The absence of studies of western swing is a dereliction of duty by today’s documentarians, which The Birth & History of Western Swing endeavors to rectify.
Cowtown Birthplace of Western Swing