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Description

1. 58 pages; 19 cm

Summary

1. Texas in Paris is the musical journey, based on true events, of two singers, a man and a woman-one white, one black-invited to France to perform in a concert series. They have never met, have no professional singing experience and face the challenge of working together and co-existing in an unfamiliar world. Apprehensive of each other, they struggle with preconceptions but forge a surprising spiritual bond that transforms their onstage performance and their lives. Texas in Paris is a metaphor for the dilemma of race that is currently dividing our nation, focusing on two people from the heartland who, like most Americans, want to avoid talking about racism as an issue. But once in Paris, a dialogue emerges that could never have happened in their isolated worlds in the United States. The music-spirituals, cowboy songs and country hymns-is a songbook of American life-everyday songs, lost and found, black and white, remembered and discovered as new.--Dramatic Publishing web page (viewed April 18, 2016).

Subject

1. Race relations -- Drama
2. African American singers -- Drama
3. Singers -- Drama
4. Musicals -- Librettos
5. Race relations
6. United States -- Race relations -- Drama
7. United States

Genre/Form

1. Drama.

Call number

1. Sc C 17-237

Author

1. Govenar, Alan B., 1952- author.

Title

1. Texas in Paris : a musical based on true events with spirituals, cowboy songs and country hymns / by Alan Govenar.

Publisher

1. Woodstock, Illinois : Dramatic Publishing Company, [2015]

Copyright date

1. ©2015.

Type of content

1. text

Type of medium

1. unmediated

Type of carrier

1. volume

ISBN

1. 1619590581
2. 9781619590588

Research call number

1. Sc C 17-237