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“jason mellard”

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  • Progressive Country

    How the 1970s Transformed the Texan in Popular Culture

    by Jason Mellard ...
    Winner, Coral Horton Tullis Memorial Prize, Texas State Historical Association, 2014During the early 1970s, the nation’s turbulence was keenly reflected in Austin’s kaleidoscopic cultural movements, particularly in the city’s progressive country music scene. Capturing a pivotal chapter in American social history, Progressive Country maps the conflicted iconography of “the Texan” during the ’70s ... Read more

    $28.79 CAD

  • Daddy-O's Book of Big-Ass Art

    by Bob Wade, Lisa Sherman, Jason Mellard, Carl Hoover, Ricardo Hernandez, Carla Ellard, Jesse Sublett, Katie Robinson-Edwards, Dan Bullock, Marsha Milam, Jim Ferguson, Bill Fitzgibbons, Chris O'Connell, Temple Boon, Jack Massing, Michael Brick, Cleve Hattersley, Shannon Wynne, Lynn Barnett, Andi Scull, Richard Holland, Will Harte, Gary Webernick, Leea Mechling, Mike Shropshire, Karen Dinitz, John Kelso, John Tinker, Lonn Taylor, Dan O'Hara, DJ Stout, Jan Reid, Dick DeGuerin, Evan Voyles, Pete Gershon, Roy Bragg, Eric O'Keefe, Kevin Williamson, Marc English, Robert Faires, Edmond Ortiz, Michael Barnes, Anne Rapp, Diana Vela, Julie Sasse, Kent Zimmerman, Michael Hoinski, David Marion Wilkinson, Joanne Leonhardt Cassullo, Bert Beveridge, Claudia Alarcón, Joe Nick Patoski ...
    Recipient of three National Endowment for the Arts grants and with works exhibited at the prestigious Biennale de Paris, New York’s Whitney Museum, the de Menil Collection in Houston, and other venues, Bob “Daddy-O” Wade started “keeping it weird” in 1961 when he arrived in Austin with his ’51 custom Ford hot rod and his slicked-back hair. Primed to study art at the University of Texas, Wade’s ... Read more

    $38.49 CAD

  • Pickers and Poets

    The Ruthlessly Poetic Singer-Songwriters of Texas

    by Joe Nick Patoski, Robert Earl Hardy, Bob Livingston, Tamara Saviano, Peter Cooper, Joe Holley, John T. Davis, Andy Wilkinson, Kathryn Jones, Jeff Prince, Jason Mellard, Jan Reid, Diana Finlay Hendricks, Brian T. Atkinson, Grady Smith, Jenni Finlay ...
    Series series John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
    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 ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

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    There is a certain malady of the mind induced by too much of one thing. Just as the body fed too long upon meat becomes a prey to that horrid disease called scurvy, so the mind fed too long upon monotony succumbs to the insidious mental ailment which the West calls "cabin fever." True, it parades under different names, according to circumstances and caste. You may be afflicted in a palace and call ... Read more

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  • Big, Hot, Cheap, and Right

    What America Can Learn from the Strange Genius of Texas

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  • Kings of Texas

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    Praise for KINGS OF TEXAS"Kings of Texas is a fresh and very welcome history of the great King Ranch. It's concise but thorough, crisply written, meticulous, and very readable. It should find a wide audience."-Larry McMurtry, author of Sin Killer and the Pulitzer Prize--winning Lonesome Dove"This book is about the King Ranch, but it is about much more than that. A compelling chronicle of war, ... Read more

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  • Gone at 3:17

    by David M. Brown; Michael Wereschagin ...
    At 3:17 p.m. on March 18, 1937, a natural gas leak beneath the London Junior-Senior High School in the oil boomtown of New London, Texas, created a lethal mixture of gas and oxygen in the schools basement. The odorless, colorless gas went undetected until the flip of an electrical switch triggered a colossal blast. The two-story school, one of the nations most modern, disintegrated, burying ... Read more

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  • Without Getting Killed or Caught

    The Life and Music of Guy Clark

    by Tamara Saviano ...
    Series series John and Robin Dickson Series in Texas Music, sponsored by the Center for Texas Music History, Texas State University
    Winner, 2016 the Belmont Book Award, Sponsored by the International Country Music ConferenceFor more than forty years, Guy Clark wrote and recorded unforgettable songs. His lyrics and melodies paint indelible portraits of the people, places, and experiences that shaped him. He has served as model, mentor, supporter, and friend to at least two generations of the world’s most talented and ... Read more

    $10.99 CAD

  • Celluloid Pueblo

    Western Ways Films and the Invention of the Postwar Southwest

    by Jennifer L. Jenkins ...
    The five Cs of Arizona—copper, cattle, cotton, citrus, and climate—formed the basis of the state’s livelihood and a readymade roster of subjects for films. With an eye on the developing national appetite for all things western, Charles and Lucile Herbert founded Western Ways Features in 1936 to document the landscape, regional development, and diverse cultures of Arizona, the U.S. Southwest, and ... Read more

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  • After The Boom In Tombstone And Jerome, Arizona

    Decline In Western Resource Towns

    by Eric L. Clements ...
    Series series Shepperson Series in Nevada History
    Focusing on two Arizona towns that had their origins in mining bonanzas—Tombstone and Jerome—historian Eric L. Clements offers a rare study dissecting the process of bust itself—the reasons and manners in which these towns declined as the mining booms ended. Tombstone was the site of one of the great silver bonanzas of the nineteenth century, a boom that started in the late 1870s and was over by ... Read more

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  • Lovesick Blues

    The Life of Hank Williams

    by Paul Hemphill ...
    Hank Williams, the quintessential country music singer and songwriter, lived a life as lonesome, desolate, and filled with sorrow as his timeless songs. From Williams's dirt- poor beginnings as a sickly child to his emergence as a star of the Grand Ole Opry, Lovesick Blues is the definitive biography of the man and his music. ... Read more

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  • La Calle

    Spatial Conflicts and Urban Renewal in a Southwest City

    by Lydia R. Otero ...
    On March 1, 1966, the voters of Tucson approved the Pueblo Center Redevelopment Project—Arizona’s first major urban renewal project—which targeted the most densely populated eighty acres in the state. For close to one hundred years, tucsonenses had created their own spatial reality in the historical, predominantly Mexican American heart of the city, an area most called “la calle.” Here, amid small ... Read more

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