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Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene

Stimeling, Travis D.

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Country music of late 1960s and early 1970s was a powerful symbol of staunch conservative resistance to the flowering hippie counterculture. But in 1972, the city of Austin, Texas became host to a growing community of musicians, entrepreneurs, journalists, and fans who saw country music as a part of their collective heritage and sought to reclaim it for their own progressive scene. These children of the Cold War, post-World War II suburban migration, and the Baby Boom escaped the socially conservative world their parents had created, to instead create for themselves an idyllic rural Texan utopia. Progressive country music--a hybrid of country music and rock--played out the contradictions at work among the residents of the growing Austin community: at once firmly grounded in the conservative Texan culture in which they had been raised and profoundly affected by the current hippie counterculture.

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OXFORD UNIV PR

Bisac Major Subject

Music

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Genres & Styles - Country & Bluegrass - General

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Paperback

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Length

9.1 Inches

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EAN

Width

6.1 Inches

Publication Date

1970-01-01

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0.5 Inches

ISBN 10

0190610352

Weight

0.66 Pounds

Book EAN

9780190610357

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Adults

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Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene