Jones (Glenn W.)-Gary SmithCollection [ca.1920s-1980s]
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Smith, Gary
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Gary Smith was a folklore student at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1970s and amassed a large record collection of traditional music from various genres, including jazz, ballads, blues, Latino, country and western, and others. His house caught fire and the LP collection was damaged by the heat to the extent that album covers were lost and the outside tracks were somewhat hindered, but the albums remain listenable. Glenn Jones, a friend of Smith’s, took on the t...
University of Texas at Austin.
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The University of Texas at Austin (UT) opened in 1883 with eight professors, four assistants, a proctor, and 221 male and female students. The first set of graduates, consisting of thirteen law students, attended UT commencement on June 14, 1884. By World War I, enrollment rose to 2,254 and by World War II to over 11,000. African Americans were admitted in 1950, and by 1966, there were 27,345 students. Over the next 40 years, the university continued to expand. In 2009 e...
Jones, Glenn W.
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Gary Smith was a folklore student at the University of Texas at Austin in the 1970s and amassed a large record collection of traditional music from various genres, including jazz, ballads, blues, Latino, country and western, and others. His house caught fire and the LP collection was damaged by the heat to the extent that album covers were lost and the outside tracks were somewhat hindered, but the albums remain listenable. Glenn Jones, a friend of Smith’s, took on the t...
