Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song A Texas Chronicle

Name: Tell Me a Story, Sing Me a Song A Texas Chronicle
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ISBN: 9780292780569

ISBN-10: 0292780567

ISBN-13: 9780292780569

Edition: 1983

Authors: William A. Owens

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Texas, the 1930s—the years of the Great Depression. It was the Texas of great men: Dobie, Bedichek, Webb, the young Américo Paredes. And it was the Texas of May McCord and "Cocky" Thompson, the Reverend I. B. Loud, the Cajun Marcelle Comeaux, the black man they called "Grey Ghost," and all the other extraordinary "ordinary" people whom William A. Owens met in his travels."Up and down and sideways" across Texas, Owens traveled. His goal: to learn for himself what the diverse peoples of the state "believed in, yearned for, laughed at, fought over, as revealed in story and song." Tell me a story, sing me a song brings together both the songs he gathered—many accompanied by music—and Owens'…

Book details

List price: $32.95
Copyright year: 1983
Publisher: University of Texas Press
Publication date: 3/1/1983
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 338
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.59" tall
Weight: 0.990