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Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound
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Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound

Alan B. Govenar
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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
Ligntnin’
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.

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Format
Hardback
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Country
United States
Date
9 October 2008
Pages
624
ISBN
9781585446056

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
Ligntnin’
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.

Read More
Format
Hardback
Publisher
Texas A & M University Press
Country
United States
Date
9 October 2008
Pages
624
ISBN
9781585446056

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