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San Antonio Rose
Language: en
Pages: 508
Authors: Charles E. Townsend
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1986 - Publisher: University of Illinois Press

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A fine, engaging, and valuable biography of a man who merged the spontaneity of country fiddling with the Big Band Sound, giving birth to Western Swing. A landm
The Texanist
Language: en
Pages: 120
Authors: David Courtney
Categories: Humor
Type: BOOK - Published: 2017-04-25 - Publisher: University of Texas Press

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A collection of Courtney's columns from the Texas Monthly, curing the curious, exorcizing bedevilment, and orienting the disoriented, advising "on such things a
The King of Western Swing
Language: en
Pages: 232
Authors: Rosetta Wills
Categories: Biography & Autobiography
Type: BOOK - Published: 1998 - Publisher: Watson-Guptill Publications

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Written by the artist's daughter, the book reveals for the first time the inside story of Wills's offstage life, together with a chronicle of his extraordinaril
Milton Brown and the Founding of Western Swing
Language: en
Pages: 416
Authors: Cary Ginell
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 1994 - Publisher: U of Nebraska Press

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"Milton Brown is one of the great unsung heroes of American music; and one of the true fathers of western swing. Ginell's biography offers a wealth of new infor
Before Elvis
Language: en
Pages: 475
Authors: Larry Birnbaum
Categories: Music
Type: BOOK - Published: 2013 - Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

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An essential work for rock fans and scholars, Before Elvis: The Prehistory of Rock 'n' Roll surveys the origins of rock 'n' roll from the minstrel era to the em
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