Alan Govenar

Biographic Data

ID706910
NAMEAlan Govenar
GIVEN NAMESAlan
FAMILY NAMEGovenar
SIGNATUREGOVENAR A
VERIFIEDNo
TOTAL WORKS12
TOTAL CITATIONS0
AUTHOR COUNT12
EDITOR COUNT0
FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR1982
LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR2000
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  • African American Frontiers: Slave Narratives and Oral Histories

    Alan GovenarBOOKAfrican American Frontiers2000

    A collection of first hand narratives and oral histories portraying the African American experience from slavery through emancipation and into the 20th century. African American Frontiersconcentrates on the period from 1703, the date of the first published narrative of an African slave's attainment of freedom in the American colonies, to 1948, the year in which President Harry S. Truman integrated the United States armed forces through Executive …

  • Blind Lemon Jefferson: The Myth and the Man

    Alan GovenarARTICLEBlack Music Research Journal2000

    In recent years, the life of Blind Jefferson has been the subject of considerable speculation.(1) Although his recordings are extensive, details about his life are relatively few. The facts of Jefferson's life are scattered in an array of articles in newspapers, fan and collector magazines, record liner notes, local legends, first-person narratives, and mythic representations. There are numerous contradictory accounts of where Jefferson lived, pe…

  • Juneteenth Texas: Essays in African-American Folklore

    Robert Cochran, Francis Edward Abernethy et al.ARTICLEAfrican American Review1999

  • Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas

    Lorenzo Thomas, Alan GovenarARTICLEThe Journal of Southern History1998

  • Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas

    Tim Troy, Alan GovenarARTICLEWestern Historical Quarterly1998

    Journal Article Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas Get access Portraits of Community: African American Photography in Texas. By Govenar Alan. (Austin: Texas State Historical Association, 1996. 272 pp. Illustrations, appendixes, index. $49.95.) Tim Troy Tim Troy Center for Creative Photography, University of Arizona Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Western Historical Quarterly, Vol…

  • L'enregistrement du blues: Cristallisations d'un genre

    Alan GovenarARTICLECahiers de musiques traditionnelles1994References: 1

    Dans cet article, l’esthetique du blues est exploree du point de vue historique. Les interpretations du blues offertes par les premiers collecteurs etaient souvent ethnocentriques. Les ecrits de Gates Thomas, Charles Peabody, Howard W. Odum, Will H. Thomas et John A. Lomax etaient marques par des prejuges et manquaient souvent de precision en ce qui concerne la vie et la musique des Americains noirs du Sud des Etats-Unis. Les enregistrements comm…

  • Cousin Joe: Blues from New Orleans

    Eileen Southern, Pleasant Quot et al.ARTICLEThe Black Perspective in Music1989

    The author recounts his childhood, explains how he became involved with music, and describes the life of a blues musician

  • Living Texas Blues

    Fred J Hay, Alan GovenarARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1986

  • Stoney Knows How

    Joan Falaky Nagy, Joseph Falaky Nagy et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1984

    Stoney Knows How is an extended interview with 'Stoney' St. Clair, an ebullient little man with the gift of gab of a circus tout and a fund of bizarre stories about tattooing and other matters. One of these is the tale of a Florida snake handler and tattoo artist who was squeezed to death by his own python. His widow made a fortune touring the South with the guilty snake. After all, says Stoney, how often do you get a chance to see a snake that's…

  • Stoney Knows How: Life as a Tattoo Artist

    Sandra K D Stahl, Leonard L St Clair et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1983

  • Charleston Blacksmith: The Work of Phillip Simmons

    Alan Govenar, John Michael Vlach et al.ARTICLEJournal of American Folklore1983

  • The Changing Image of Tattooing in American Culture

    Open AccessAlan Govenar, Alan B GovenarARTICLEJournal of American Culture1982