Every year the US National Endowment for the Arts presents its National Heritage Fellowship to America's best practitioners of time-honoured crafts and arts. The volumes celebrate the lives and achievements of every winner of the National Heritage Fellowship since 1981, which constitutes well over 200 profiles of the nation's finest traditional ...
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.
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.
Using a century of photographs taken by black photographers and detailed interviews with the men and women behind the cameras, Portraits of Community is an eloquent visual history of African American life. Images of African Americans have, for the most part, been absent from Texas's photographic history. Scholarly texts on photography rarely ...
Osceola Mays, the African-American daughter of a sharecropper, describes her childhood in a segregated Texas town during the early 20th century. Originally an oral history, this true story is illustrated with color paintings.
"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. This ...
The first book that looks beyond the beading, feathering, and dancing of these members of New Orleans' black community to tell the story of how the traditions began and why they continue today. Smith, an award-winning photographer, traces this spectacle back to its ancient African origins and, through a combination of stylistic images and ...
"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.Fully illustrated with 495 dramatic, high-quality color and black-and-white photographs - many ...
}Z.Z. Hill, Albert Collins, Leadbelly, Mance Lipscomb, Bobby "Blue" Bland, "Lightnin'" Hopkins, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Johnny Copeland, Charlie Christian, Charles Brown, "Cleanhead" Vinson, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Johnny Winter, Clifton Chenier, Clarence "Gatemouth" Brown, B.B. King, "T-Bone" Walker, Lowell Fulsom--these are just a few of the many ...
The harsh road from slavery to citizenship passed through many frontiers. This collection of writings offers an overview of and insights into African American frontiers, from the publication of the first slave narrative in 1703, to 1948 when President Truman integrated the Armed Forces. The book is a useful historical resource that brings together ...
The excavation of the shipwreck La Belle grabbed public attention in Texas, across the nation, and overseas. Especially enthralled with the discoveries from the ship were schoolchildren. Pam Wheat-Stranahan, named by the Texas Historical Commission to head the educational efforts associated with the excavation's traveling exhibit, continued her ...
This book combines the visual artistry of Smith's black-and-white photography with his thorough knowledge of this fascinating subject. Govenar's interviews with seven captivating individuals give readers an inside look into several customary traditions of the city.
A mile east of the School Book Depository in downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, a mottled array of old brick structures, where wild graffiti and gaudy murals decorate the walls of trendy shops, loft apartments, restaurants, nightclubs, an galleries, and tattoo studios. The area is also home to more conventional endeavors ...
Osceola Mays, the African-American daughter of a sharecropper, describes her childhood in a segregated Texas town during the early 20th century. Originally an oral history, this true story is illustrated with color paintings.
This nostalgic collection of early American tattoo art will charm collectors, artists, and the ever-growing tattoo audience. Tracing the history of tattoos in the U.S. through biographies of tattoo artists and featuring stunning, full-color illustrations of the works themselves--also known as "flash"--this gorgeous ArtBox details the unique style ...
This nostalgic collection of early American tattoo art will charm collectors, artists, and the ever-growing tattoo audience. Tracing the history of tattoos in the U.S. through biographies of tattoo artists and featuring stunning, full-color illustrations of the works themselves--also known as "flash"--this gorgeous ArtBox details the unique style ...
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. Intergrating the iconography of every thing and every place, from classic tattoo flash and ...
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