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Book All Over the Map

Download or read book All Over the Map written by Michael Corcoran and published by . This book was released on 2005-10 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: From country and blues to rap and punk, Texas music is all over the map, figuratively and literally. Texas musicians have pioneered new musical genres, instruments, and playing styles, proving themselves to be daring innovators who often call the tune for musicians around the country and even abroad. To introduce some of these trailblazing Texas musicians to a wider audience and pay tribute to their accomplishments, Michael Corcoran profiles thirty-two of them in All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music. Corcoran covers musicians who work in a wide range of musical genres, including blues, gospel, country, rap, indie rock, pop, Cajun, Tejano, conjunto, funk, honky-tonk, rockabilly, rhythm and blues, and Western swing. His focus is on underappreciated artists, pioneers who haven't fully received their due. He also includes well-known musicians who've been underrated, such as Stevie Ray Vaughan and Selena, and invites us to take a closer look at the unique talents of these artists. Corcoran's profiles come from articles he wrote for the Dallas Morning News, Austin American-Statesman, Houston Press, and other publications, which have been expanded and updated for this volume. His musical detective work even uncovers a case of mistaken identity (Washington Phillips) and corrects much misinformation on Blind Willie Johnson and Arizona Dranes. Corcoran closes the book with lively pieces on the Austin music scene and its most famous, if no longer extant, clubs, as well as his personal lists of the forty greatest Texas songs of all time and the twenty-five essential CDs for Texas music fans.

Book Wills Road Map

Download or read book Wills Road Map written by Stephen R. Akers and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Mapping Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : John S. Wilson
  • Publisher : 1845 Books
  • Release : 2019
  • ISBN : 9781481311816
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book Mapping Texas written by John S. Wilson and published by 1845 Books. This book was released on 2019 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: List of maps -- Introduction -- One -- Two -- Three -- Four -- Five: the map as art.

Book The Shape of Texas

    Book Details:
  • Author : Richard V. Francaviglia
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 1995
  • ISBN : 9780890966648
  • Pages : 148 pages

Download or read book The Shape of Texas written by Richard V. Francaviglia and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 1995 with total page 148 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas-shaped ashtrays, belt buckles, earrings, kitchen utensils--"Texas kitsch"--fill gift shops alongside highways and in airports. The Lone Star State's unmistakable shape is appropriated by advertisers to hawk everything from beans to automobiles inside Texas' borders and beyond. As a billboard-sized neon sign glowing atop a popular honkey-tonk, the Texas map illuminates the Fort Worth night sky, attracting tourists in search of a good time--and a share of the Texas experience. Over the years America's most recognizable state outline has become one of its most potent symbols, a metaphor for Texas popular culture. In the last decade, the private, commercial, and official use of the Texas map as cultural symbol has boomed. Richard V. Francaviglia identifies this current trend as "Tex-map mania," and contends that the Texas map as icon integrates geography with history--and gives shape to a mythic landscape and to abstracted notions of what Texas is and who Texans are. Written in a lively style that engages both the scholar and the general reader in a discussion of the power of symbol and the meaning and significance of a shared aesthetic, The Shape of Texas is at the crossroads of cartography and popular culture. Francaviglia uses more than one hundred illustrations in offering a provocative visual and written account of this important, yet much neglected, aspect of Texas history and the dynamics of a still emerging Texas identity.

Book The Roads of Texas

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  • Author : Mapsco, Inc
  • Publisher : Mapsco
  • Release : 2008
  • ISBN : 9781569664216
  • Pages : 0 pages

Download or read book The Roads of Texas written by Mapsco, Inc and published by Mapsco. This book was released on 2008 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: All the Roads of Texas from the interstates to the backroads. With a comprehensive index listing of 4,000 cities, towns and communities, this is the most complete and easy to read map publication for traveling the farm and county roads to the freeways and tollways in Texas.

Book Backroads of Texas

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  • Author : Larry Hodge
  • Publisher : Taylor Trade Publishing
  • Release : 2000-04-01
  • ISBN : 1461661692
  • Pages : 201 pages

Download or read book Backroads of Texas written by Larry Hodge and published by Taylor Trade Publishing. This book was released on 2000-04-01 with total page 201 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This new edition takes you off the major highways to discover the sights, scenes, history, and places that make the Lone Star State unique.

Book Backroads of Texas

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  • Author : Gary Clark
  • Publisher : Quarto Publishing Group USA
  • Release : 2016-11-01
  • ISBN : 0760351325
  • Pages : 179 pages

Download or read book Backroads of Texas written by Gary Clark and published by Quarto Publishing Group USA. This book was released on 2016-11-01 with total page 179 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Discover the strange, sublime, and breathtaking sights of Texas with this illustrated guide featuring thirty backroad excursions. The second largest state in America, Texas is home to a vast array of hidden treasures waiting just off the beaten path. Backroads of Texas guides readers to intriguing sites, offbeat characters, and glorious landscapes that are typically missed by interstate travelers. Watch frenzied bats as they fly by the thousands from San Angelo’s Foster Road Bridge. Catch your breath as you drink in the majestic Guadalupe Mountains. Get ready for goosebumps when you spelunk into the shadowy depths of Inner Space Cavern. And try not to get spooked when you see the paranormal “ghost lights” near the eclectic town of Marfa. These off-road sights are what truly set the Lone Star State apart from its neighbors. Completely reimagined for a new generation of road-trip takers and explorers, Backroads of Texas is lavishly illustrated with photographs, maps, and vintage advertising of Texas’s many scenic, historic, and cultural attractions.

Book The Bats of Texas

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  • Author : David J. Schmidly
  • Publisher :
  • Release : 1991
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book The Bats of Texas written by David J. Schmidly and published by . This book was released on 1991 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Texas, home to the world's largest remaining bat cave, Bracken Cave, has the most diverse bat fauna of any state.

Book Ready to go Super Book of Outline Maps

Download or read book Ready to go Super Book of Outline Maps written by Scholastic, Inc. Staff and published by Scholastic Inc.. This book was released on 2000 with total page 116 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 101 Reproducible outline maps of the continents, countries of the world, the 50 states, and more.

Book Texas Almanac  2000 2001  Millennium Edition

Download or read book Texas Almanac 2000 2001 Millennium Edition written by and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Rand McNally 2021 Large Scale Road Atlas

Download or read book Rand McNally 2021 Large Scale Road Atlas written by Rand McNally and published by Rand McNally. This book was released on 2020-04-20 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Give road-weary eyes a break with this spiral-bound Large Scale edition featuring all the accuracy you've come to expect from Rand McNally, only bigger. Updated atlas contains maps of every U.S. state that are 35% larger than the standard atlas version plus over 350 detailed city inset and national park maps and a comprehensive, unabridged index.

Book The Handbook of Texas

Download or read book The Handbook of Texas written by Walter Prescott Webb and published by . This book was released on 1952 with total page 1176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Vol. 3: A supplement, edited by Eldon Stephen Branda. Includes bibliographical references.

Book Monthly Catalogue  United States Public Documents

Download or read book Monthly Catalogue United States Public Documents written by and published by . This book was released on 1990-03 with total page 1028 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Bulletin of the University of Texas

Download or read book Bulletin of the University of Texas written by and published by . This book was released on 1904 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Publications of the Geological Survey

Download or read book Publications of the Geological Survey written by Geological Survey (U.S.) and published by . This book was released on 1948 with total page 776 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Code of Federal Regulations

Download or read book Code of Federal Regulations written by and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 702 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: