Alan Govenar is an award-winning writer, poet, playwright, photographer, and filmmaker. He is director of Documentary Arts, a non-profit organization he founded to advance essential perspectives on historical issues and diverse cultures. Govenar is a Guggenheim Fellow and the author of more than thirty books, including Paradise in the Smallest Thing, Stoney Knows How: Life as a Tattoo Artist, Lightnin’ Hopkins, Untold Glory, Texas Blues, Stompin’ at the Savoy, Everyday Music, Texas in Paris, Osceola: Memories of a Sharecropper’s Daughter, and A Pillow on the Ocean of Time.
7 Електронні книги від Alan Govenar
Jay Brakefield & Alan Govenar: Dallas Music Scene: 1920s-1960s
For much of the 20th century, Dallas was home to a wide range of vital popular music. By the 1920s, the streets, dance halls, and vaudeville houses of Deep Ellum rang with blues and jazz. Blind Lemon …
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Alan Govenar: Boccaccio in the Berkshires
Inspired by The Decameron and its dark and satirical novellas, Boccaccio in the Berkshires chronicles the foibles of seven women and three men, all in their twenties, who meet in an online chat room …
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Alan Govenar & Jay Brakefield: Deep Ellum and Central Track
A new edition of the biography of Dallas’ own Deep Ellum. Just outside of downtown Dallas lies a section of the city called Deep Ellum, where graffiti and murals decorate the walls of trendy sh …
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Alan Govenar & Kip Lornell: See That My Grave is Kept Clean
A new biography of the beloved but mysterious Blind Lemon Jefferson, famous blues musician. Born in 1897, Jefferson was a blind street musician who played his guitar at the corner of Elm Street and C …
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Alan Govenar & Mary Niles Mack: Anne Morgan
An inspiring story of an extraordinary woman (the youngest daughter of J. P. Morgan) and her commitment to photography, philanthropy, and advocacy Biographical essays detail Morgan's life and wor …
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Alan Govenar: Gus Wagner
In 1897, Gus embarked on a four-year career as a merchant seaman. While traveling the world, he discovered the art of tattooing, learning to tattoo from tribesmen in Java and Borneo who showed him ho …
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