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Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas
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Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas Paperback - 1994

by Barry Shank


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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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  • Title Dissonant Identities: The Rock 'n' Roll Scene in Austin, Texas
  • Author Barry Shank
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition First Edition, F
  • Pages 312
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Wesleyan University Press, Hanover and London
  • Date 1994-05-27
  • Illustrated Yes
  • Features Illustrated
  • ISBN 9780819562760 / 0819562769
  • Weight 1.13 lbs (0.51 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.01 x 6.07 x 0.94 in (22.89 x 15.42 x 2.39 cm)
  • Themes
    • Cultural Region: Southwest U.S.
    • Geographic Orientation: Texas
  • Library of Congress subjects Rock music - Texas - Austin - History and
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 93041385
  • Dewey Decimal Code 781.660

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Citations

  • Library Journal, 09/01/1994, Page 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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