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Author: Lonny Doose Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
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This book is the story of Texas convict bands, informed by prison records, radio show transcripts, and the words and music of the inmates themselves. Captivating and charismatic, banjo player Reliable Childs received thousands of fan letters with the Goree All-Girl String Band during World War II. Hattie Ellis, a young black inmate with a voice that rivaled Billie Holiday's, was immortalized by notable folklorist John Avery Lomax. Cowboys, songsters, and champion fiddlers all played a part in one of the most unique prison histories in the nation. The author presents the decades-long story of the Texas convict bands, informed by prison records, radio show transcripts, and the words and music of the inmates themselves.
Author: Lonny Doose Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
Book Description
This book is the story of Texas convict bands, informed by prison records, radio show transcripts, and the words and music of the inmates themselves. Captivating and charismatic, banjo player Reliable Childs received thousands of fan letters with the Goree All-Girl String Band during World War II. Hattie Ellis, a young black inmate with a voice that rivaled Billie Holiday's, was immortalized by notable folklorist John Avery Lomax. Cowboys, songsters, and champion fiddlers all played a part in one of the most unique prison histories in the nation. The author presents the decades-long story of the Texas convict bands, informed by prison records, radio show transcripts, and the words and music of the inmates themselves.
Author: Caroline Gnagy Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1625853505 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 230
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Inside the Texas State Prison is a surprising story of ingenuity, optimism and musical creativity. During the mid-twentieth century, inmates at the Huntsville unit and neighboring Goree State Farm for Women captured hearts all over Texas during weekly radio broadcasts and live stage performances. WBAP's Thirty Minutes Behind the Walls took listeners inside the penitentiary to hear not only the prisoners? songs but also the stories of those who sang them. Captivating and charismatic, banjo player Reable Childs received thousands of fan letters with the Goree All-Girl String Band during World War II. Hattie Ellis, a young black inmate with a voice that rivaled Billie Holiday's, was immortalized by notable folklorist John Avery Lomax. Cowboys, songsters and champion fiddlers all played a part in one of the most unique prison histories in the nation. Caroline Gnagy presents the decades-long story of the Texas convict bands, informed by prison records, radio show transcripts and the words and music of the inmates themselves.
Author: Lashaunda Lyter Publisher: ISBN: Category : Languages : en Pages : 198
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This book is the story of Texas convict bands, informed by prison records, radio show transcripts, and the words and music of the inmates themselves. Captivating and charismatic, banjo player Reliable Childs received thousands of fan letters with the Goree All-Girl String Band during World War II. Hattie Ellis, a young black inmate with a voice that rivaled Billie Holiday's, was immortalized by notable folklorist John Avery Lomax. Cowboys, songsters, and champion fiddlers all played a part in one of the most unique prison histories in the nation. The author presents the decades-long story of the Texas convict bands, informed by prison records, radio show transcripts, and the words and music of the inmates themselves.
Author: Caroline Gnagy Publisher: History Press Library Editions ISBN: 9781540213082 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 194
Book Description
Inside the Texas State Prison is a surprising story of ingenuity, optimism and musical creativity. During the mid-twentieth century, inmates at the Huntsville unit and neighboring Goree State Farm for Women captured hearts all over Texas during weekly radio broadcasts and live stage performances. WBAP s Thirty Minutes Behind the Walls took listeners inside the penitentiary to hear not only the prisoners? songs but also the stories of those who sang them. Captivating and charismatic, banjo player Reable Childs received thousands of fan letters with the Goree All-Girl String Band during World War II. Hattie Ellis, a young black inmate with a voice that rivaled Billie Holiday s, was immortalized by notable folklorist John Avery Lomax. Cowboys, songsters and champion fiddlers all played a part in one of the most unique prison histories in the nation. Caroline Gnagy presents the decades-long story of the Texas convict bands, informed by prison records, radio show transcripts and the words and music of the inmates themselves."
Author: Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield Publisher: Arcadia Publishing ISBN: 1467131512 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 128
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"For much of the 20th century Dallas was home to a wide range of vital popular music. By the 1920s, the streets, dance halls, and vaudeville houses of Deep Ellum rang with blues and jazz ... In Images of America: The Dallas Music Scene: 1920s -1960s, longtime collaborators Alan Govenar and Jay Brakefield document this exciting time with rich archival images and build on decades of research."--Back cover.
Author: Michael Berryhill Publisher: University of Texas Press ISBN: 0292726945 Category : True Crime Languages : en Pages : 248
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In April 1981, two white Texas prison officials died at the hands of a black inmate at the Ellis prison farm near Huntsville. Warden Wallace Pack and farm manager Billy Moore were the highest-ranking Texas prison officials ever to die in the line of duty. The warden was drowned face down in a ditch. The farm manager was shot once in the head with the warden's gun. The man who admitted to killing them, a burglar and robber named Eroy Brown, surrendered meekly, claiming self-defense. In any other era of Texas prison history, Brown's fate would have seemed certain: execution. But in 1980, federal judge William Wayne Justice had issued a sweeping civil rights ruling in which he found that prison officials had systematically and often brutally violated the rights of Texas inmates. In the light of that landmark prison civil rights case, Ruiz v. Estelle, Brown had a chance of being believed. The Trials of Eroy Brown, the first book devoted to Brown's astonishing defense, is based on trial documents, exhibits, and journalistic accounts of Brown's three trials, which ended in his acquittal. Michael Berryhill presents Brown's story in his own words, set against the backdrop of the chilling plantation mentality of Texas prisons. Brown's attorneys—Craig Washington, Bill Habern, and Tim Sloan—undertook heroic strategies to defend him, even when the state refused to pay their fees. The Trials of Eroy Brown tells a landmark story of prison civil rights and the collapse of Jim Crow justice in Texas.
Author: Lonny Doose
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