Apr 06 2019
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May 25 2019
Down in Houston: Documenting a Texas Blues Community

Down in Houston: Documenting a Texas Blues Community

Presented by Institute of Texan Cultures at Institute of Texan Cultures

The UTSA Institute of Texan Cultures and San Antonio African American Community Archive and Museum are teaming up to show a new exhibit complementing the archive’s Fiesta Family Blues Festival. The institute will showcase “Down in Texas: Documenting a Texas Blues Community,” as a temporary component of the African American Texans exhibit.

 

Houston’s African American community birthed a vibrant and unique slice of the blues. In the clubs, ballrooms, and barbecue joints of neighborhoods such as Third Ward, Frenchtown, Sunnyside, and Double Bayou, Houston's African American community birthed a vibrant and unique slice of the blues. Ranging from the down-home sounds of Lightnin' Hopkins to the more refined orchestrations of the Duke-Peacock recording empire and beyond, Houston blues was and is the voice of a working-class community, an ongoing conversation about good times and hard times, smokin' Saturday nights and Blue Mondays.

 

Photo exhibit adapted from “Down in Houston: Bayou City Blues,” University of Texas Press, 2003, by Roger Wood and James Fraher.

Admission Info

$10 for adults (18-64)

$8 for seniors (65+) and minors (6-17)

Free with membership, UTSA or Alamo Colleges ID

Dates & Times

2019/04/06 - 2019/05/25

Additional time info:

Regular hours are 9 a.m. – 5 p.m., Monday through Saturday; noon to 5 p.m. Sunday.

Location Info

Institute of Texan Cultures

801 E. Cesar Chavez Blvd., San Antonio, TX 78205