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Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues
by Alan Govenar
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.
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Ed Hardy Beyond Skin
By Alan B. Govenar, Don Ed Hardy
Internationally renowned for breathing new life into tattooing, Ed Hardy has created a startling array of artwork "Beyond Skin" over the last four decades. Hardy's drawings, prints, paintings, and newest pieces in porcelain effortlessly cross boundaries.
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Ed Hardy Art for Life
By Alan B. Govenar, Don Ed Hardy
Growing up in the center of 1950s and early 60s California pop culture, Don Ed Hardy learned to tattoo by apprenticing himself to master artists. Over the past forty years Hardy has revolutionized this ancient tradition while also bringing fresh energy to the classical mediums of painting, printmaking and ceramics through his exhibitions across the United States and abroad.
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Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound
by Alan B. Govenar
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.
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Untold Glory: African Americans in Pursuit of Freedom, Opportunity, and Achievement
by Alan B. Govenar
Untold Glory offers a fresh perspective on one of the most fundamental elements of American history—the conquest of new frontiers. In twenty-seven fascinating first-person accounts, African Americans from different eras, backgrounds, and occupations explore and reflect on the meaning of frontier, both literally and metaphorically.
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Extraordinary Ordinary People: Five American Masters of Traditional Arts
by Alan B. Govenar
Govenar, who notes that he's always preferred the road less traveled, discovered riches on his journey across America--individuals who have dedicated their lives to uncommon art forms that preserve the traditions of their ancestors for all to enjoy.
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Stompin' at the Savoy: The Story of Norma Miller
by Alan Govenar and Martin French (Illustrator)
Grade 3-6–This autobiography of a Lindy Hopper from the Harlem Renaissance era sizzles with spirit and swings with vitality. Miller was only five when she knew she wanted to be a dancer, and for a time she lived in an apartment behind the famous Savoy Ballroom.
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