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Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas
Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas
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A fascinating analysis of the music scene in Austin, Texas.
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.
Author: Barry Shank
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 04/01/1994
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.07w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780819562760
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/1994 pg. 184
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.
Author: Barry Shank
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Published: 04/01/1994
Pages: 312
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.13lbs
Size: 9.01h x 6.07w x 0.94d
ISBN: 9780819562760
Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 09/01/1994 pg. 184
About the Author
BARRY SHANK is Assistant Professor of American Studies at the University of Kansas. He has performed in rock'n'roll bands in Kansas City, Los Angeles, Austin and Philadelphia.
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