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Brand New: A new, unread, unused book in perfect condition with no missing or damaged pages. See all condition definitionsopens in a new window or tab
Book Title
Texas Blues : The Rise of a Contemporary Sound
ISBN
9781585446056

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Product Identifiers

Publisher
Texas A&M University Press
ISBN-10
158544605X
ISBN-13
9781585446056
eBay Product ID (ePID)
28038378321

Product Key Features

Number of Pages
624 Pages
Publication Name
Texas Blues : the Rise of a Contemporary Sound
Language
English
Publication Year
2008
Subject
United States / State & Local / Southwest (Az, NM, Ok, Tx), Composers & Musicians, Genres & Styles / Blues
Type
Textbook
Author
Alan B. Govenar
Subject Area
Music, Biography & Autobiography, History
Series
Gary Hartman Texas Music Series, Sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University Ser.
Format
Hardcover

Dimensions

Item Height
1.8 in
Item Weight
99.3 Oz
Item Length
11.3 in
Item Width
8.8 in

Additional Product Features

Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
2007-039152
Reviews
"Alan Govenar''s book is easily the most ambitious, most sweeping volume specifically dedicated to the subject of Texas blues. No other book even comes close."--Joe Nick Patoski, author of Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, " Texas Blues has value that transcends music scholarship. . . The book does an admirable job of balancing range and depth."- Living Blues, "Alan Govenar's book is easily the most ambitious, most sweeping volume specifically dedicated to the subject of Texas blues. No other book even comes close."--Joe Nick Patoski, author of Willie Nelson: An Epic Life, "Texas Blues has value that transcends music scholarship. . . The book does an admirable job of balancing range and depth."-Living Blues, "This book is a unique collection of publicity photos, snapshots, and reproductions of concert posters, album labels and album covers."- Texas Observer, "This book is a unique collection of publicity photos, snapshots, and reproductions of concert posters, album labels and album covers."-Texas Observer
Dewey Edition
22
Illustrated
Yes
Dewey Decimal
781.64309764
Synopsis
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 most influential artists and their times. From Blind Lemon Jefferson and Aaron "T-Bone" Walker of Dallas, to Delbert McClinton in Fort Worth, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins in East Texas, Baldemar (Freddie Fender) Huerta in South Texas, and Stevie Ray Vaughan in Austin, Texas Blues shows the who, what, where, and how of blues in the Lone Star State., 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.
LC Classification Number
ML394.G68 2008

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