Book Description
High Fidelity meets Blue Highways in this gloriously offbeat quest for the true roots of Texas Swing.
Author : Duncan McLean
Publisher : W. W. Norton & Company
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 46,36 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Music
ISBN : 9780393317565
High Fidelity meets Blue Highways in this gloriously offbeat quest for the true roots of Texas Swing.
Author : Duncan MacLean
Publisher : Vintage
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 17,74 MB
Release : 1998-08-01
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ISBN : 9780099276791
Author : Duncan McLean
Publisher : Vintage Books USA
Page : 312 pages
File Size : 33,78 MB
Release : 1998
Category : Country music
ISBN : 9780099534716
Author : Dave Oliphant
Publisher : University of Texas Press
Page : 257 pages
File Size : 17,78 MB
Release : 2009-12-03
Category : Music
ISBN : 0292778872
Jazz is one of America's greatest gifts to the arts, and native Texas musicians have played a major role in the development of jazz from its birth in ragtime, blues, and boogie-woogie to its most contemporary manifestation in free jazz. Dave Oliphant began the fascinating story of Texans and jazz in his acclaimed book Texan Jazz, published in 1996. Continuing his riff on this intriguing musical theme, Oliphant uncovers in this new volume more of the prolific connections between Texas musicians and jazz. Jazz Mavericks of the Lone Star State presents sixteen published and previously unpublished essays on Texans and jazz. Oliphant celebrates the contributions of such vital figures as Eddie Durham, Kenny Dorham, Leo Wright, and Ornette Coleman. He also takes a fuller look at Western Swing through Milton Brown and his Musical Brownies and a review of Duncan McLean's Lone Star Swing. In addition, he traces the relationship between British jazz criticism and Texas jazz and defends the reputation of Texas folklorist Alan Lomax as the first biographer of legendary jazz pianist-composer Jelly Roll Morton. In other essays, Oliphant examines the links between jazz and literature, including fiction and poetry by Texas writers, and reveals the seemingly unlikely connection between Texas and Wisconsin in jazz annals. All the essays in this book underscore the important parts played by Texas musicians in jazz history and the significance of Texas to jazz, as also demonstrated by Oliphant's reviews of the Ken Burns PBS series on jazz and Alfred Appel Jr.'s Jazz Modernism.
Author : E. Joe Deering
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 137 pages
File Size : 46,47 MB
Release : 2009-09-21
Category : Photography
ISBN : 1603441484
Texans will decorate almost anything with their state flag, and E. Joe Deering has the pictures to prove it. In Lovin’ That Lone Star Flag, photographer Deering has collected more than a hundred of his favorite images, showing state-flag-adorned pickup trucks, belt buckles, hang gliders, rooftops, and more. Starting when he was a staff photographer for the Houston Chronicle, Deering began noticing, as he toured the state on various assignments, how often he saw the image of the Texas flag painted on buildings, vehicles, barn doors, and other places. His curiosity led to an idea for a photographic essay, published by the Chronicle, and this in turn resulted in an exhibit at the George Bush Presidential Library and Museum in College Station of his “flagotography.” Paired with Deering’s lively captions recording the circumstances and locations of these uniquely Texan creations as well as former Chronicle colleague Ruth Rendon’s introduction of Deering and his work, these striking photographs capture Texans’ infectious enjoyment of their state symbol on land, on water, and in the air. Lovin’ That Lone Star Flag will bring a smile to your face. It might even get you in the mood for a little Texas Two-Step. . . .
Author : Winnie Griggs
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 502 pages
File Size : 12,90 MB
Release : 2020-09-08
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 148807738X
A groom to the rescue Lone Star Heiress by Winnie Griggs Adventurous Ivy Feagan is headed to Turnabout, Texas, to claim an inheritance when an accident leads to an unexpected rescue by widowed schoolteacher Mitch Parker. But when town gossips target Mitch and Ivy’s friendship, he proposes to save her reputation. Ivy doesn’t want to marry for honor and doesn’t need to marry for money. She’ll only agree to a proposal made for love’s sake! The Runaway Bride by Noelle Marchand Leaving town for a fresh start, runaway bride Lorelei Wilkins never suspects her parents will send Sheriff Sean O’Brien—the only husband she’s ever wanted—to bring her home! After an innocent mistake leaves Lorelei and her reluctant rescuer with compromised reputations, marriage is their only option. Will this inconvenient groom and stubborn bride realize that only love can conquer all?
Author : Jolene Navarro
Publisher : Harlequin
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 49,66 MB
Release : 2014-07-15
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 0373879067
A Second Chance At Love Single mom Vickie Lawson is back in her Texas hometown, intent on making a better life for her children. But when her son's troubles lead childhood sweetheart Jake Torres to her door, she realizes her feelings for him never went away. Now a State Trooper, Jake vows not to be distracted by the beautiful woman who once held his heart. He's never revealed to her the secret that tore them apart. Jake fears if he does, she--and the whole town--will never forgive him. But if Vickie and Jake can untangle the past, they may have another chance at forever.
Author : John Mark Dempsey
Publisher : University of North Texas Press
Page : 321 pages
File Size : 19,33 MB
Release : 2002
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1574411519
This is the story of the Light Crust Doughboys phenomenon, from their debut broadcast in 1930 to their contemporary live performances.
Author : Alan C. Elliott
Publisher : Arcadia Publishing
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 31,76 MB
Release : 2016
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 0738503568
This book is a collection of informative--and sometimes quirky-- stories about Lone Star innovators, inventors, and inventions. Each story emphasizes a Texas connection and shows how Texas ingenuity, determination, or sheer dumb luck made the person or product famous and successful.
Author : Gary Hartman
Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
Page : 324 pages
File Size : 41,1 MB
Release : 2008-03-08
Category : History
ISBN : 9781603440028
The richly diverse ethnic heritage of the Lone Star State has brought to the Southwest a remarkable array of rhythms, instruments, and musical styles that have blended here in unique ways and, in turn, have helped shape the music of the nation and the world. Historian Gary Hartman writes knowingly and lovingly of the Lone Star State’s musical traditions. In the first thorough survey of the vast and complex cultural mosaic that has produced what we know today as “Texas music,” he paints a broad, panoramic view, offers analysis of the origins of and influences on specific genres, profiles key musicians, and provides guidance to additional sources for further information. A musician himself, Hartman draws on both academic and non-academic sources to give a more complete understanding of the state’s remarkable musical history and ethnic community studies with his first-hand knowledge of how important music is as a cultural medium through which human beings communicate information, ideas, emotions, values, and beliefs, and bond together as friends, families, and communities. The History of Texas Music incorporates a selection of well-chosen photographs of both prominent and less-well-known artists and describes not only the ethnic origins of much of Texas music but also the cross-pollination among various genres. Today, the music of Texas—which includes Native American music, gospel, blues, ragtime, swing, jazz, rhythm and blues, conjunto, Tejano, Cajun, zydeco, western swing, honky tonk, polkas, schottsches, rock & roll, rap, hip hop and more—reflects the unique cultural dynamics of the Southwest.