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The Early Years of Rhythm and Blues: Focus on Houston
by Alan B. Govenar, Benny Joseph
In the early 1950s, when Houston was the home this country’s most vital rhythm and blues scene, Benny Joseph was hired to photograph the rising stars of his two record labels, Duke and Peacock. Artists such as Bobby (Blue) Bland, Clarence (Gatemouth) Brown, Johnny Ace and Junior Parker were making a new kind of Southern blues.
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Stoney Knows How: Life as a Sideshow Tattoo Artist
by Alan Govenar
Stoney Knows How is an extended interview with Mr. St. Clair, an ebullient little man with the gift of gab of a circus tout (spoken in the accents of Appalachia) and a fund of bizarre stories about tattooing and unrelated matters
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Masters of Traditional Arts: A Biographical Dictionary
by Alan B. Govenar
An encyclopedia of the 259 recipients of the National Endowment for the Arts' National Heritage Award. Features biographies and photos of every recipient in two text-book bound volumes. Also includes a bonus Masters of Traditional Arts DVD-Rom which includes hours and hours of audio and video content as well as additional photographs and bios that supplement the book.
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African American Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories
by Alan B. Govenar
When studying the experiences of people caught up in the Americas' slave trade, researchers have traditionally focused on the human and social conditions as set down in the slaves' personal narratives or on the literary genre that developed from the documentation of their experiences.
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Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper's Daughter
by Osceola Mays, Alan Govenar, Shane Evans (Illustrator)
This slim volume contains the powerful transcribed oral history of an African American woman now in her nineties. Born in East Texas in 1909, Osceola Mays grew up under slavery's oppressive legacy: "We lived apart, separated from white folks in just about everything we did." Her grandmother had been a slave; her father was a sharecropper.
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Art Outsider and Folk Art of the Collection of Chicago
by Laurent Danchin, Martine Lusardy, Alan B. Govenar (Contributor)
French and English language texts compiled by Laurent Danchin and Martine Lusardy. Featuring some 158 illustrations, including 124 in full color. A section, "Outside and In: Tattoo Flash and the Creative Impulse", was contributed by Alan Govenar.
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Deep Ellum & Central Track: Where the Black & White Worlds of Dallas Converged
by Alan Govenar, Jay F. Brakefield
ocal histories are of far more than regional significance, particularly when the data relate to larger scenes, as is true in this study of Dallas's early-20th-century Jewish and Black ghettos--Deep Ellum and Central Track. The two groups had migrated to Dallas, individually expecting the traditions of segregation, a situation that brought about some degree of alliance.
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