Deep Ellum - The Other Side of Dallas

Informationen zum Autor Alan Govenar is an author! folklorist! photographer! and filmmaker! living in Dallas. His recent titles include Everyday Music! Jasper! Texas: The Community Photographs of Alonzo Jordan! Lightnin' Hopkins: His Life and Blues ! and Texas Blues: The Rise of a Contemporary Sound .Jay Brakefield is a career journalist! freelance writer! and editor. He lives in Bryan! Texas. Klappentext 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 western swing. Zusammenfassung Previously published under title: Deep Ellum and Central Track. Denton! Tex.: University of North Texas Press! 1998.

Product details

• Authors: Jay F. Brakefield, Alan B. Govenar, Alan B./ Brakefield Govenar
• Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 01.09.2013
• EAN: 9781603449588
• ISBN: 978-1-60344-958-8
• No. of pages: 320
• Series: John and Robin Dickson Series; John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, Sponsored by the Center for Texas; John and Robin Dickson Series; John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, Sponsored by the Center for Texas; John and Robin Dickson Texas M
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous