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Who Got the Camera?

A History of Rap and Reality

University of Texas Press

An illuminating cultural study arguing that, in the late 1980s, the reality TV of Cops and the reality rap of “Fuck tha Police” were two sides of the same coin, redefining popular entertainment as a truth-telling medium.

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Another Year Finds Me in Texas

The Civil War Diary of Lucy Pier Stevens

University of Texas Press

One of few women’s diaries from Civil War–era Texas and the only one written by a Northerner, this previously unpublished journal offers a unique perspective on daily life and the ties that transcended sectional loyalties during America’s most divisive conflict.

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Polypores and Similar Fungi of Eastern and Central North America

University of Texas Press

This resource guide is the only color-illustrated work devoted to polypores of eastern and central North American--the first of its kind to be published since Gilbertson & Ryvarden’s 1987 North American Polypores.

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Teaching Black History to White People

University of Texas Press

A personally and pedagogically generous book, Teaching Black History to White People outlines how to teach and engage with Black history on college campuses and beyond.

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On the Porch

Life and Music in Terlingua, Texas

University of Texas Press

Timely, wide-ranging, and exhaustively researched, On the Porch tells the surprising story of music in Terlingua, a tiny but remarkably musical border town in the remote desert of West Texas.

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Where the Devil Don't Stay

Traveling the South with the Drive-By Truckers

University of Texas Press

In the first full-length book on the Drive-By Truckers, Deusner examines the southern spaces that shaped the band’s ideas of what music can say and do while also discovering how their music shifted the way we view the modern South.

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A Good Long Drive

Fifty Years of Texas Country Reporter

University of Texas Press

The true story of how a Dallas TV reporter accidentally spent his life sharing the stories of people no one has ever heard of on Texas Country Reporter, told by the show’s creator and host, Bob Phillips.

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Playing with Things

Engaging the Moche Sex Pots

University of Texas Press

Challenging common approaches to archaeology and sexuality studies, this book explores, in part by physically interacting with the artifacts, how Moche ceramics reveal ancient Indigenous ways of thinking about and experiencing sex.

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William S. Burroughs and the Cult of Rock 'n' Roll

University of Texas Press

The little-known history of William S. Burroughs's impact on some of the biggest names in music, from the Beatles to Bowie, and his role as a secret architect of the rock 'n' roll genre itself.

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Guitar King

Michael Bloomfield's Life in the Blues

University of Texas Press

This first comprehensive biography of the late, great Michael Bloomfield brings to life a dazzling electric-guitar virtuoso who transformed rock ’n’ roll in the 1960s and made a lasting impact on the blues genre.

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