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Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks - The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene (Paperback)
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Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks - The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene (Paperback)
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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. In Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The
Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene,
Travis Stimeling connects the local Austin culture and the
progressive music that became its trademark. He presents a colorful
range of evidence, from behavior and dress, to newspaper articles,
to personal interviews of musicians as diverse as Willie Nelson,
Jerry Jeff Walker, and Doug Sahm. Along the way, Stimeling uncovers
parodies of the cosmic cowboy image that reinforce the longing for
a more peaceful way of life, but that also recognize an awareness
of the muddled, conflicted nature of this counterculture identity.
Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks brings new insight into the inner
workings of Austin's progressive country music scene - by bringing
the music and musicians brilliantly to life. This book will appeal
to students and scholars of popular music studies, musicology and
ethnomusicology, sociology, cultural studies, folklore, American
studies, and cultural geography; the lucid prose and interviews
will also make the book attractive to fans of the genre and artists
discussed within. Austin residents past and present, as well as
anyone with an interest in the development of progressive music or
today's 'alt.country' movement will find Cosmic Cowboys and New
Hicks an informative, engaging resource.
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