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Territory bands helped disseminate popular music—which included swing, jazz, sweet dance music, or any combination thereof—bringing it to remote gin mills and dance halls that were otherwise ignored by national booking agents representing genuine recording stars like Ellington and Armstrong.
TERRITORY BANDS. The term territory band refers to those Plains and midwestern dance bands of the 1920s and 1930s that played throughout an expansive geographic area extending from Texas in the south to Nebraska in the north and from St. Louis in the east to Denver in the west.
Territory bands were regional dance bands in the Midwest, south, and southwestern states. Their principal function was to provide music for ballroom dancing, which was becoming increasingly popular in the 20s and 30s.
Aug 30, 2018 · Part 1 of Blue Highways and Sweet Music: The Territory Bands looked at the roots, drivers and challenges of the travelling groups who brought jazz music to the non-urban areas of the Southern Plains, through one-night-stands, in often impromptu venues.
Nov 12, 2018 · “Territory bands” were regional pop music orchestras between the two World Wars. These groups, like Troy Floyd in Texas or the Blue Devils in Oklahoma and Missouri, performed far outside the major music industry centers, which were concentrated in the U.S.’s largest, most commercially developed cities: New York, Chicago, and Los Angeles.
Jun 25, 2018 · Radio crossed geographic, racial and economic barriers, bringing the likes of the Original Dixieland Jazz Band, Louis Armstrong, Benny Goodman, New Orleans Rhythm Kings, Paul Whiteman and Duke Ellington to the majority of U.S. households.
Jan 22, 2019 · 00:00 -00:01. 98 10 2. Click the play button to listen. Outside of the Chicago—New York nexus, jazz thrived during the late 1920's and 1930's in Missouri, Oklahoma and Texas, with its center in Kansas City.
