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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." "Captures some of the essence and truths about the Austin scene, especially within the punk and new wave movement of the early Eighties . . . fascinating." -- Austin Chronicle

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Book category Books in English The arts Music Music: styles & genres

• Full title: Dissonant Identities
• Author: Barry Shank
• Language: English
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 312
• EAN: 9780819562760
• ISBN: 0819562769
• ID: 05194620
• Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
• Weight: 513 g
• Dimensions: 229 × 152 × 24 mm
• Date of publishing: 01. April 1994

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