Billy Rose Presents-- Casa Mañana

Billy Rose Presents-- Casa Mañana
Author: Jan Jones
Publisher: TCU Press
Total Pages: 214
Release: 1999
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780875652016

But Fort Worth was never again the same after the Frontier Centennial . . . and memories of that festival linger today, even though the buildings were long ago razed.

Casa Mañana

Casa Mañana
Author: Susan Danly
Publisher: UNM Press
Total Pages: 224
Release: 2002
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9780826328052

Provides a detailed look at the political and artistic climate in Mexican-American relations through an examination of the folk art collection amassed by Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow when he was U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the late 1920s.

Casa Mañana

Casa Mañana
Author: Elizabeth Morrow
Publisher:
Total Pages: 84
Release: 1932
Genre: Casa Mañana (Cuernavaca, Mexico)
ISBN:

Renegades, Showmen & Angels

Renegades, Showmen & Angels
Author: Jan Jones
Publisher: TCU Press
Total Pages: 384
Release: 2006
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780875653181

"Jan Jones' volume on Fort Worth's theatrical heritage presents for the first time a comprehensive history of the showmen, performers, theaters, and events that shaped the city's histrionic fortunes in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries."--BOOK JACKET.

The Adventures of Ozzie Nelson

The Adventures of Ozzie Nelson
Author: John R. Holmes
Publisher: McFarland
Total Pages: 427
Release: 2021-09-14
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 1476683581

When Ozzie Nelson died in 1975, he was no longer a household name. For a guy who had created the longest-running TV sitcom in history, invented the rock video, and fronted one of the most successful big bands of the 1930s, it's baffling that Nelson has faded so far from American media memory. Larger than life offscreen--an attorney, college football star, cartoonist, songwriter, major band leader--Ozzie created a smaller-than-life TV persona, the bumbling average Dad who became known to the rock generation (which included his teen idol son Rick Nelson) as the essence of blandness. But America also saw Ozzie as their iconic Dad: not a "father knows best," since his pontifications usually proved flawed by the end of each episode, but the father who tried his best. This book is the only full-length biography of Ozzie Nelson since he published his memoirs in 1973. It treats the big band and early TV icon with affection and hints that American pop culture may owe more to Ozzie than is generally acknowledged.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate
Publisher:
Total Pages: 2504
Release: 1963
Genre:
ISBN:

National Arts Legislation

National Arts Legislation
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare. Special Subcommittee on Arts and Humanities
Publisher:
Total Pages: 476
Release: 1963
Genre: Art and state
ISBN:

Considers S. 165 and S. 1316, to establish a National Council on the Arts and a National Arts Foundation.

Hearings

Hearings
Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Labor and Public Welfare
Publisher:
Total Pages: 842
Release: 1963
Genre:
ISBN:

Paul Whiteman

Paul Whiteman
Author: Don Rayno
Publisher: Scarecrow Press
Total Pages: 894
Release: 2012-12-19
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 0810883228

In a career that spanned 60 years, Paul Whiteman changed the landscape of American music, beginning with his million-selling recordings in the early 1920s of “Whispering,” “Japanese Sandman,” and “Three O’Clock in the Morning.” Whiteman would then introduce “symphonic jazz,” a powerful blend of the classical and jazz idioms that represented a whole new approach to modern American music, influencing generations of bandleaders and composers. While some hold that at the close of the Roaring Twenties Whiteman’s musical hegemony quickly waned, Don Rayno illustrates in this second volume of Paul Whiteman: Pioneer in American Music how much of a dominant figure Whiteman remained. A major figure on the American music scene for decades to come, he would continue to lead critically-acclaimed orchestras, filling theaters and concert halls alike and diligently seeking out and nurturing musical talent on the largest scale of any orchestra leader in the 20th century. In this second volume of Rayno’s magisterial treatment of the life and music of this remarkable maestro, Whiteman’s career during the second half of his life is explored in the fullest detail, as Whiteman conquers the worlds of theater and vaudeville, the concert hall, radio, motion pictures, and television, winning accolades in all of them. Through hundreds of interviews, extensive documentation, and exhaustive research of over nearly three decades, a portrait emerges of one of American music’s most important musical figures during the last century. Rayno paints a stunning portrait of Whiteman’s considerable accomplishments and far-reaching influence.