Dissonant Identities
The Rock’n’Roll Scene in Austin, Texas
Barry Shank

Wesleyan University Press
distributed by University Press of New England

Table of Contents

• The Imaginary Tourist: An Introduction to Austin’s Rock’n’Roll Scene
• Constructing the Musicalized Performance of Texan Identity
• Desperados Waiting for a Train: The Development of Progressive Country Music
• The Collapse of the Progressive Country Alliance
• Punk Rock at Raul’s: The Performance of Contradiction
• The Performance of Signifying Practice
• The Inscription of Identity in the Music Business
• The Commodification of Identity
• The Coming Importance of Musicalized Experience




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