University Of Texas Press: 2424 books
Dwight Yoakam
A Thousand Miles from Nowhere
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
From his formative years playing pure, hardcore honky-tonk for mid-'80s Los Angeles punk rockers through his subsequent surge to the top of the country charts, Dwight Yoakam has enjoyed a singular career. An electrifying live performer, superb writer, and virtuosic vocalist, he has successfully bridged...
Around the World with LBJ
My Wild Ride as Air Force One Pilot, White House Aide, and Personal Confidant
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2009
When Lyndon Baines Johnson wanted to go somewhere, there was no stopping him. This dynamic president called for Air Force One as others summon a taxi—at a moment's notice, whatever the hour or the weather. And the man who made sure that LBJ got his ride was General James U. Cross, the president's...
by W. K. Stratton, Anissa "The Assassin" Zamarron
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Language: English
Release Date: January 1, 2010
Reaching the top in any sport requires a long, hard climb. But when you start with the baggage of years of family dysfunction and incarceration in a hellish mental hospital, the climb is especially steep. Yet even with such weights to carry, Anissa Zamarron won not one, but two, world championships...
Surviving in Two Worlds
Contemporary Native American Voices
Language: English
Release Date: June 28, 2010
Surviving in Two Worlds brings together the voices of twenty-six Native American leaders. The interviewees come from a variety of tribal backgrounds and include such national figures as Oren Lyons, Arvol Looking Horse, John Echohawk, William Demmert, Clifford Trafzer, Greg Sarris, and Roxanne Swentzell.Their...
Los Lobos
Dream in Blue
Language: English
Release Date: September 15, 2015
Los Lobos leaped into the national spotlight in 1987, when their cover of “La Bamba” became a No. 1 hit. But what looked like an overnight achievement to the band’s new fans was actually a way station in a long musical journey that began in East Los Angeles in 1973 and is still going strong....
by Jessica Hopper
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: September 18, 2018
Written in taut, mesmerizing, often hilarious scenes drawn from 2004 through 2009, Night Moves captures the fierce friendships and small moments that form us all. Drawing on her personal journals, Jessica Hopper chronicles her time as a DJ, living in decrepit punk houses, biking to bad loft parties...
The Artist in New York
Letters to Jean Charlot and unpublished writings, 1925-1929.
Language: English
Release Date: January 20, 2011
In his Foreword to this edition, Jean Charlot says: "An unusual feature of Orozco's letters is the great deal that he has to say about art. That one artist writing to another would emphasize art as his subject seems normal enough to the American reader. Yet, within the context of the Mexico of...
Galveston and the 1900 Storm
Catastrophe and Catalyst
Language: English
Release Date: February 8, 2013
The Galveston storm of 1900 reduced a cosmopolitan and economically vibrant city to a wreckage-strewn wasteland where survivors struggled without shelter, power, potable water, or even the means to summon help. At least 6,000 of the city's 38,000 residents died in the hurricane. Many observers predicted...
Killer on the Road
Violence and the American Interstate
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2009
Starting in the 1950s, Americans eagerly built the planet’s largest public work: the 42,795-mile National System of Interstate and Defense Highways. Before the concrete was dry on the new roads, however, a specter began haunting them—the highway killer. He went by many names: the “Hitcher,”...
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Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
Language: English
Release Date: August 1, 2018
From classical Hollywood film comedies to sitcoms, recent political satire, and the developing world of online comedy culture, comedy has been a mainstay of the American media landscape for decades. Recognizing that scholars and students need an authoritative collection of comedy studies that gathers...
Independent Stardom
Freelance Women in the Hollywood Studio System
Language: English
Release Date: December 15, 2015
During the heyday of Hollywood’s studio system, stars were carefully cultivated and promoted, but at the price of their independence. This familiar narrative of Hollywood stardom receives a long-overdue shakeup in Emily Carman’s new book. Far from passive victims of coercive seven-year contracts,...
Mary, Mother and Warrior
The Virgin in Spain and the Americas
Language: English
Release Date: September 17, 2009
A Mother who nurtures, empathizes, and heals... a Warrior who defends, empowers, and resists oppression... the Virgin Mary plays many roles for the peoples of Spain and Spanish-speaking America. Devotion to the Virgin inspired and sustained medieval and Renaissance Spaniards as they liberated Spain...
Amazons, Wives, Nuns, and Witches
Women and the Catholic Church in Colonial Brazil, 1500-1822
Language: English
Release Date: December 1, 2013
The Roman Catholic church played a dominant role in colonial Brazil, so that women’s lives in the colony were shaped and constrained by the Church’s ideals for pure women, as well as by parallel concepts in the Iberian honor code for women. Records left by Jesuit missionaries, Roman Catholic church...
Notions of Genre
Writings on Popular Film Before Genre Theory
Language: English
Release Date: November 8, 2016
Much of the writing in film studies published today can be understood as genre criticism, broadly speaking. And even before film studies emerged as an academic discipline in the 1970s, cultural observers within and beyond the academy were writing about genre films and making fascinating attempts to understand...