Dissonant Identities: The Rock'N'Roll Scene in Austin, Texas - Couverture rigide

Shank, Barry

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 0819552720 ISBN 13 : 9780819552723

Editeur : Wesleyan University Press, 1994

Synopsis

Book by Shank Barry

A propos du livre

Présentation de l'éditeur

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.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Wesleyan University Press
• Date d'édition: 1994
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0819552720
• ISBN 13: 9780819552723
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 308
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: non disponible