University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
by O. Rufus Lovett
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Whether she knows it or not, every girl who has ever dreamed of taking her place in a line of high-kicking dancers on a football field at halftime has been inspired by the Kilgore College Rangerettes, the world's first precision dance drill team. Founded in Kilgore, Texas, in 1939-1940 by the incomparable...
Big Thicket People
Larry Jene Fisher's Photographs of the Last Southern Frontier
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
Living off the land—hunting, fishing, and farming, along with a range of specialized crafts that provided barter or cash income—was a way of life that persisted well into the twentieth century in the Big Thicket of southeast Texas. Before this way of life ended with World War II, professional...
by Joe Ely
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Since he first hitched a ride out of Lubbock, Texas, at the age of sixteen, singer-songwriter and Flatlanders band member Joe Ely has been a road warrior, traveling highways and back roads across America and Europe, playing music for "2 hours of ecstasy" out of "22 hours of misery." To stay sane on...
Cinema Houston
From Nickelodeon to Megaplex
Language: English
Release Date: June 30, 2010
Cinema Houston celebrates a vibrant century of movie theatres and moviegoing in Texas's largest city. Illustrated with more than two hundred historical photographs, newspaper clippings, and advertisements, it traces the history of Houston movie theatres from their early twentieth-century beginnings...
Looking for Carrascolendas
From a Child's World to Award-Winning Television
Language: English
Release Date: July 22, 2010
If your childhood friends were Agapito, the bombastic, bilingual lion; Campamocha, the fix-it man; Caracoles, the restaurant owner; Uncle Andy, the shoe seller; Berta and Dyana, the life-size dolls; and Seorita Barrera, then you grew up watching Carrascolendas. This award-winning show, which originally...
Mojo Hand
The Life and Music of Lightnin' Hopkins
Language: English
Release Date: April 2, 2013
In a career that took him from the cotton fields of East Texas to the concert stage at Carnegie Hall and beyond, Lightnin’ Hopkins became one of America’s greatest bluesmen, renowned for songs whose topics effortlessly ranged from his African American roots to space exploration, the Vietnam War,...
by John A. Lomax
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Language: English
Release Date: September 1, 2017
Growing up beside the Chisholm Trail, captivated by the songs of passing cowboys and his bosom friend, an African American farmhand, John A. Lomax developed a passion for American folk songs that ultimately made him one of the foremost authorities on this fundamental aspect of Americana. Across many...
Stirring It Up with Molly Ivins
A Memoir with Recipes
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
You probably knew Molly Ivins as an unabashed civil libertarian who used her rapier wit and good ole Texas horse sense to excoriate political figures she deemed unworthy of our trust and respect. But did you also know that Molly was one helluva cook? And we're not just talking chili and chicken-fried...
The Southern Forest
A Chronicle
Language: English
Release Date: July 3, 2014
When the first European explorers reached the southern shores of North America in the early seventeenth century, they faced a solid forest that stretched all the way from the Atlantic coast to eastern Texas and Oklahoma. The ways in which they and their descendants used—and abused—the forest over...
The Way I Heard It
Tales of the Big Bend
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
The folklore of Texas' Big Bend region was still in the making during Walter Fulcher's lifetime. Born in Lampasas County in 1887, he worked on the Martin Ranch near Sheffield when a young man. There he witnessed events in the last outlaw activities of the Black Jack Ketchum gang. He also listened to...
by Susan Wittig Albert
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: June 4, 2010
From Eudora Welty's memoir of childhood to May Sarton's reflections on her seventieth year, writers' journals offer an irresistible opportunity to join a creative thinker in musing on the events—whether in daily life or on a global scale—that shape our lives. In An Extraordinary Year of Ordinary...
Experiments in a Jazz Aesthetic
Art, Activism, Academia, and the Austin Project
Language: English
Release Date: June 23, 2010
In Austin, Texas, in 2002, a group of artists, activists, and academics led by performance studies scholar Omi Osun Joni L. Jones formed the Austin Project (tAP), which meets annually in order to provide a space for women of color and their allies to build relationships based on trust, creativity,...
Notes on Blood Meridian
Revised and Expanded Edition
Language: English
Release Date: May 1, 2013
Blood Meridian (1985), Cormac McCarthy's epic tale of an otherwise nameless "kid" who in his teens joins a gang of licensed scalp hunters whose marauding adventures take place across Texas, Chihuahua, Sonora, Arizona, and California during 1849 and 1850, is widely considered to be one of...
William Goyen
Selected Letters from a Writer’s Life
Language: English
Release Date: February 19, 2014
Proclaimed "one of the great American writers of short fiction" by the New York Times Book Review, William Goyen (1915-1983) had a quintessentially American literary career, in which national recognition came only after years of struggle to find his authentic voice, his audience, and an artistic milieu...