Dissonant identities : the rock 'n' roll scene in Austin, Texas

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Label

Dissonant identities : the rock 'n' roll scene in Austin, Texas

Title remainder

the rock 'n' roll scene in Austin, Texas

Statement of responsibility

Barry Shank

Creator

• Shank, Barry

Author

• Shank, Barry

Subject

• Rock music -- Texas | Austin -- History and criticism
• Rockmuziek
• Subcultuur
• Texas -- Austin
• Criticism, interpretation, etc
• Rock music

Genre

• Criticism, interpretation, etc

Language

eng

Summary

Music of the bars and clubs of Austin, Texas has long been recognized as defining one of a dozen or more musical "scenes" across the country. In Dissonant Identities, Barry Shank, himself a musician who played and lived in the Texas capital, studies the history of its popular music, its cultural and economic context, and also the broader ramifications of that music as a signifying practice capable of transforming identities. While his focus is primarily on progressive country and rock, Shank also writes about traditional country, blues, rock, disco, ethnic, and folk musics. Using empirical detail and an expansive theoretical framework, he shows how Austin became the site for "a productive contestation between two forces: the fierce desire to remake oneself through musical practice, and the equally powerful struggle to affirm the value of that practice in the complexly structured late-capitalist marketplace."

Member of

• Music/culture

Cataloging source

DLC

Dewey number

781.66/09764/31

Illustrations

• illustrations
• maps

Index

index present

Literary form

non fiction

Nature of contents

bibliography

Series statement

Music/culture