Author: Sam Houston Dixon
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 394

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Author: Sylvia Ann Grider
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 9780890967652
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 484

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A critical survey of over 150 years of Texas women writers, including fiction and nonfiction authors, poets, and dramatists.

Author: Roger Eliot Stoddard
Publisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 027105221X
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 833

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"A bibliography of poetry composed in what is now the United States of America and printed in the form of books or pamphlets before 1821"--Provided by publisher.

Author: Craig E. Clifford
Publisher: Texas A&M University Press
ISBN: 1623494478
Category : Music
Languages : en
Pages : 279

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Many books and essays have addressed the broad sweep of Texas music—its multicultural aspects, its wide array and blending of musical genres, its historical transformations, and its love/hate relationship with Nashville and other established music business centers. This book, however, focuses on an essential thread in this tapestry: the Texas singer-songwriters to whom the contributors refer as “ruthlessly poetic.” All songs require good lyrics, but for these songwriters, the poetic quality and substance of the lyrics are front and center. Obvious candidates for this category would include Townes Van Zandt, Michael Martin Murphey, Guy Clark, Steve Fromholz, Terry Allen, Kris Kristofferson, Vince Bell, and David Rodriguez. In a sense, what these songwriters were doing in small, intimate live-music venues like the Jester Lounge in Houston, the Chequered Flag in Austin, and the Rubaiyat in Dallas was similar to what Bob Dylan was doing in Greenwich Village. In the language of the times, these were “folksingers.” Unlike Dylan, however, these were folksingers writing songs about their own people and their own origins and singing in their own vernacular. This music, like most great poetry, is profoundly rooted. That rootedness, in fact, is reflected in the book’s emphasis on place and the powerful ways it shaped and continues to shape the poetry and music of Texas singer-songwriters. From the coffeehouses and folk clubs where many of the “founders” got their start to the Texas-flavored festivals and concerts that nurtured both their fame and the rise of a new generation, the indelible stamp of origins is inseparable from the work of these troubadour-poets. Please see the listing for the print edition to view the table of contents for this title.

Author: Edwin Anderson Alderman
Publisher:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 514

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Author: Robert Clarke & Co
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Category : America
Languages : en
Pages : 126

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Author: American Library Association. Conference
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Category : Library science
Languages : en
Pages : 1008

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Publisher: Scarecrow Press
ISBN: 9780810821231
Category : United States
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Author:
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Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1238

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Author: Daniel Steele Durrie
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Languages : en
Pages : 598

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