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Texas Blues
Alan B. Govenar
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Description for Texas Blues
Reveals the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world. This book shows the who, what, where, and how of blues in Texas. Series: John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, Sponsored by the Center for Texas. Num Pages: 624 pages, 179 colour, 316 b&w photos, bib., index. BIC Classification: 1KBBSX; AVGK. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 279 x 216 x 46. Weight in Grams: 2812.
Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world.Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs - many never before published - ""Texas Blues"" provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking work documenting these musicians and their style with the stories of 110 of the ... Read more
Texas Blues allows artists to speak in their own words, revealing the dynamics of blues, from its beginnings in cotton fields and shotgun shacks to its migration across boundaries of age and race to seize the musical imagination of the entire world.Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs - many never before published - ""Texas Blues"" provides comprehensive and authoritative documentation of a musical tradition that has changed contemporary music. Award-winning documentary filmmaker and author Alan Govenar here builds on his previous groundbreaking work documenting these musicians and their style with the stories of 110 of the ... Read more
Product Details
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press United States
Number of pages
624
Condition
New
Series
John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, Sponsored by the Center for Texas
Number of Pages
624
Format
Hardback
Place of Publication
College Station, United States
ISBN
9781585446056
SKU
V9781585446056
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About Alan B. Govenar
ALAN GOVENAR is a writer, photographer, folklorist, and filmmaker who lives in Dallas. Through his nonprofit organization, Documentary Arts, Inc., he has worked in association with NOVA, La Sept/ARTE, and the Corporation for Public Broadcasting on a number of projects. The off-Broadway premier of his musical, Blind Lemon Blues, co-created with Akin Babatunde and based on the life of Blind ... Read more
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