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It Can Be This Way Always : Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival by David Johnson (2021, Hardcover)

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It Can Be This Way Always : Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival, Hardcover by Johnson, David (PHT); Muse, Mary (FRW); Mellard, Jason, ISBN 1477323449, ISBN-13 9781477323441, Brand New, Free shipping in the US "The Kerrville Folk Festival (KFF), a two-week music event set within the Texas Hill Country, is one of the longest continuously running musical festivals in North America. First staged in 1972, it will celebrate its 50th anniversary in May 2021. Since 2008, David Johnson has documented the KFF, capturing the festivalgoers, Quiet Valley Ranch (host site of the festival), and its transitory yet long-standing community. Taken together, it's a thoughtful documentation of an important music festival in Texas, and a celebration of the people who make it happen"--

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PublisherUniversity of Texas Press

ISBN-101477323449

ISBN-139781477323441

eBay Product ID (ePID)13050379644

Product Key Features

Book TitleIt Can Be this Way Always : Images from the Kerrville Folk Festival

Number of Pages128 Pages

LanguageEnglish

TopicHistory & Criticism, Individual Photographers / General, Subjects & Themes / Celebrations & events

Publication Year2021

IllustratorYes

GenreMusic, Photography

AuthorDavid Johnson

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height0.6 in

Item Weight22.1 Oz

Item Length10.1 in

Item Width8.1 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2020-044310

ReviewsA striking collection of black-and-white film images capturing the spirit of the festival--guitars, sandals, tents, caliche dust, and all...In the absence of the chance to gather at Quiet Valley Ranch at least until the fall, Johnson's tribute in It Can Be This Way Always serves as both a satisfying fix for old-timers and an intriguing intro for newcomers., Johnson pays joyful homage to the 49-year-old festival...The festival...comes to life in the pages of [ It Can Be This Way Always ]...Johnson's black and white photography centers attendees and volunteers instead of the musicians, capturing the spur-of-the-moment campfires, hazy summer fashion, and communal living that define Kerrville., Johnson's black-and-white photos take in the entire scene, a melange of campground, be-in, jamboree, dance floor, and jam session...Recommended for its depictions of a vibrant counterculture gathering and visual evocation of the power of music., Johnson's black-and-white photos take in the entire scene, a me´lange of campground, be-in, jamboree, dance floor, and jam session...Recommended for its depictions of a vibrant counterculture gathering and visual evocation of the power of music., As David Johnson's photographs make clear, that ounce of difference continues to hold sway at Quiet Valley Ranch: it can be this way always.

Dewey Edition23

Dewey Decimal781.620078764884

Table Of ContentForeword (Mary Muse) Preface (David Johnson) Plates Roots of the Ballad Tree: Visions of Kerrville in Historical Context (Jason Mellard) List of Plates Acknowledgments

SynopsisFor fifty years, music fans, hippies, artists, and songwriters have converged each spring on Quiet Valley Ranch in the Texas Hill Country. They are drawn by the thousands to the annual Kerrville Folk Festival, a weeks-long gathering of musical greats and ordinary people living in an intentional community marked by radical acceptance and the love of song. At the festival, David Johnson is known as Photo Dave, the guy who lugs around a large-format camera and captures the moments that make Kerrville special. It Can Be This Way Always collects eighty images from the past decade. Portraits of attendees and volunteers accompany scenes of stage performances, campfire jam sessions, and vans repurposed into coffee stands. In these images we see the temporary, makeshift world that festivalgoers create, a place where eccentricities are the norm and music is the foundation of friendship and unity. "It can be this way always" is a popular saying at Kerrville: simultaneously optimistic and wistful like a good folk song--or a photograph from your best life., A graceful and searching photographic ode to the people of the Kerrville Folk Festival, who gather annually in the Texas Hill Country to celebrate music and live an idealistic combination of nonconformity and intentional community.

LC Classification NumberML38.K47K479 2021