{"product_id":"across-the-border-and-back-music-in-the-big-bend-hardcover","title":"Across the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend - Hardcover","description":"\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMarcia Hatfield Daudistel\u003c\/b\u003e (Author), \u003cb\u003eBill Wright\u003c\/b\u003e (Photographer), \u003cb\u003eW. K. Kip Stratton\u003c\/b\u003e (Foreword by)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom 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 \u003ci\u003equincea era\u003c\/i\u003e; playing traditional norte o 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom the porch at Terlingua's Trading Post to the jukebox at Lajitas, \u003ci\u003eAcross the Border and Back: Music in the Big Bend\u003c\/i\u003e 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. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARCIA HATFIELD DAUDISTEL is coauthor of \u003ci\u003eAuthentic Texas: People of the Big Bend\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eThe Women of Smeltertown\u003c\/i\u003e. She is also the editor of \u003ci\u003eGrace and Gumption: The Women of El Paso\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLiterary El Paso\u003c\/i\u003e and serves on the council of the Texas Institute of Letters. A longtime resident of El Paso, Texas, she now lives in Albuquerque, New Mexico. BILL WRIGHT, award-winning photographer, is author of several books, including \u003ci\u003eThe Whole Damn Cheese: Maggie Smith, Border Legend\u003c\/i\u003e, \u003ci\u003eThe Texas Outback: Ranching on the Last Frontier\u003c\/i\u003e, and \u003ci\u003ePortraits from the Desert: Bill Wright's Big Bend\u003c\/i\u003e. A member of the Texas Institute of Letters, he resides in Abilene, Texas.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 240\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.94 x 10.24 x 9.29 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e April 19, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Books by splitShops","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":42161757192327,"sku":"9781623499440","price":48.6,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0601\/2623\/2711\/files\/c97d4037891f07142e6bfd7fa582982a.webp?v=1733283803","url":"https:\/\/booksby.splitshops.com\/products\/across-the-border-and-back-music-in-the-big-bend-hardcover","provider":"Books by splitShops","version":"1.0","type":"link"}