Format: Paperback
Pages: 312
ISBN: 9780819562760
Pub Date: 01 Apr 1994
Imprint: Wesleyan University Press
Illustrations: 9 illus. Map.
Description:
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.