A five-part series premiering on #KLRN or #PBS this week takes a closer look at the legacy of #Texas #DanceHalls. Texas dance halls are intertwined with the state's identity, long serving as spaces for people to gather and unwind — particularly across the Hill Country.
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When Slim’s Y-Ki-Ki Zydeco dance hall closed in Opelousas in 2016, it represented an end of an era.
But that still begs the question: What happened to all the dance halls.
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The Trocadero Dansant was a popular dancehall in South Brisbane in the 1930s and 40s. I wrote a story partially set there for my book Ephemeral City. Here’s some of the research behind the storytelling.
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Ephemeral City is set in Brisbane across 80 years. Here’s a slice of the research behind the stories. #Brisbane #history #jazz #dancehalls #books #fiction #shortstories youtu.be/COeTo-YAZGg?...
