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Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene Stimeling, Travis D. (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University School of Music)
Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene
Stimeling, Travis D. (Assistant Professor, Assistant Professor, West Virginia University School of Music)
For a generation disillusioned with modernity and the conservatism of post-war suburbia, the unique blend of rock and country music that emerged from Austin, Texas in the early 1970s embodied both a longing for change and a newfound pride in living an unconventional way of life. With extensive archival research and exclusive interviews with key scene figures, Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene exploresthe connection between a unique community on America's cultural borderlands and the innovative music that helped to shape it.
224 pages, 4 b/w photos, 2 music examples, 2 tables
| Media | Books Hardcover Book (Book with hard spine and cover) |
| Released | June 9, 2011 |
| ISBN13 | 9780199747474 |
| Publishers | Oxford University Press Inc |
| Pages | 192 |
| Dimensions | 158 × 242 × 20 mm · 458 g |
| Language | English |