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Across the Border and Back : Music in the Big Bend
Texas Tour Life - Book - by Marcia Hatfield Daudistel
(2022)
In
the vast, sparsely populated area of West Texas known as the Big Bend,
life takes place on a different scale. The nearest neighbor can be forty
miles away, perhaps located not just in another town but another
country, the border historically less obvious than it is today. In the
small-town, bicultural atmosphere of the Big Bend, musicians from both
sides of the Rio Grande come together, creating music that spans genre,
culture, and international borders.From Ojinaga, Mexico, to Alpine,
Texas, and most points in between, writer Marcia Hatfield Daudistel and
photographer Bill Wright have gathered, through hours of interviews, a
trove of anecdotes, images, and personal recollections that explore what
makes music - and musicians - in the Big Bend slightly different from
anything found elsewhere.
Playing
big band music one night for a dance at Marfa Army Air Field and border
polkas the next evening at a quinceaNera; playing a traditional norteNo
and conjunto but throwing in the saxophone to change the dynamic;
making a living with their music or keeping their day jobs and playing
when they can: these are the stories that demonstrate the cultural and
musical versatility required for musicians in the Big Bend. From the
porch at Terlingua's Starlight Theatre to the jukebox at Lajitas, Across
the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend features the people, the
history, the local color, the venues, and, above all, the distinctive
attitude that have defined music-making in this place, at once one of
the most remote and most unique in the country.
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