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A visual history of the life of Augustus "Gus" Wagner and his work as a hand tattoo artist, exploring a relatively unknown area of American art history from the 1890s to the 1930s

A new biography of beloved but mysterious Blind Lemon Jefferson, famous blues musician. Born in 1897, Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and Central Avenue in the Deep Ellum area of Dallas, Texas, until a Paramount Records scout discovered him. Between 1926 and his untimely death in 1929, Jefferson made more than 80 records and became the biggest-selling blues singer in America. Although his...

A new edition of the biography of Dallas' own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graffiti and murals decorate the walls of trendy shops, loft apartments, restaurants, nightclubs, art galleries, and tattoo studios. The area has been home to a remarkable array of businesses, creatives, and artistic practices since its birth 150 years ago as a Black center of business. Because of the a...

The inspiring story of an extraordinary woman and her commitment to photography, philanthropy, and advocacy!

Dive into the life and work of master craftsman Jeronimo Lozano and his extraordinarily detailed retablos.

In this deeply satirical homage to The Decameron, ten asymptomatic pandemic survivors shelter together in an Italianate mansion and form unexpected bonds as they tell each other stories to cope with the bizarre conditions of the modern world.

Updated edition with new photos and text exploring the extraordinary life of Stoney St. Clair, circus performer turned tattoo artist!.

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Benny Joseph made his living as a professional photographer in Houston's black community during the crucial decades from the 1950s through the early 1980s, when the amplified pulse of rhythm and blues underscored the social changes sweeping the nation. Joseph photographed everything from parades and teen hops to impassioned speeches by civil rights leaders Martin Luther King, Jr., and Thurgood Marshall. Under contract to the pioneering black e...

Deep Ellum, on the eastern edge of downtown Dallas, first sprang up as a ramshackle business district with saloons and variety theatres and evolved into a place where the black and white worlds of Dallas converged. This book strips away layers of myth to illuminate the cultural milieu that spawned such seminal blues and jazz musicians as Blind Lemon Jefferson, Buster Smith, and T-Bone Walker and that was also an incubator for the growth of wes...

Author and researcher Alan Govenar brings readers face-to-face with the stories and memories of people who are as varied as the traditions they carry on. From 1983 to 1988, Alan Govenar travelled more than 35, 000 miles around Texas, interviewing, recording, and photographing the vast cultural landscape of the state. In Everyday Music, he compares his experiences then with his attempts to reconnect with the people and traditions that he had or...

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Through fascinating profiles of five National Heritage Fellows, folklorist Alan Govenar celebrates the cultural democracy that is America--and honors the endurance of traditional crafts and methods. Full color.

The vitality, wry humor, and indomitable spirit of jazz dancer Norma Miller, one of the premier dancers during the Harlem Renaissance, is captured in this text which chronicles her early life and rise to fame as one of the original performers of the Lindy Hop. Full color.

For much of the 20th century, Dallas was home to a wide range of vital popular music. By the 1920s, the streets, dance halls, and vaudeville houses of Deep Ellum rang with blues and jazz. Blind Lemon Jefferson was discovered singing the blues on the streets of Deep Ellum but never recorded in Dallas. Beginning in the 1930s, however, artists from Western swing pioneer Bob Wills to blues legend Robert Johnson recorded in a three-story zigzag mod...

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.

A collection of first hand narratives and oral histories portraying the African American experience from slavery through emancipation and into the 20th century.

By the time of his death in 1982, Sam "Lightnin'" Hopkins was likely the most recorded blues artist in history. This brilliant new biography--the first book ever written about him--illuminates the many contradictions of the man and his myth. Born in 1912 to a poor sharecropping family in the cotton country between Dallas and Houston, Hopkins left home when he was only eight years old with a guitar his brother had given him. He made his living ...

Portraits of Community presents more than two hundred powerful images of black Texans taken by a group of little-known black photographers and includes detailed interviews with the men and women behind the cameras.