| Description |
1 online resource (1 online resource 309 pages) : illustrations. |
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text file |
| Series |
Texas Folklore Society Publications ; No. 40
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Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Publications of the Texas Folklore Society ; No. 40.
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| Access |
Open Access Unrestricted online access |
| Summary |
Annotation This collection of essays from the 1970s describes the customs, traditions, songs, and stories by which future anthropologists will analyze that decade. The rodeos and chain letters and bumper stickers, Neiman Marcus and fat stock shows, gospel conventions and underground newspapers, CB radios and university ghosts, backwoods beer busts and the folklore of marijuana, Jack Ruby and the Kennedy assassination. This publication also looks at zydeco, Western Swing, gospel music, Texas country music, and the rise of redneck rock, by such writers as Joseph Lomax, Guy Logsdon, Bill Malone, and Jan Reid. |
| Local Note |
Project Muse Project Muse Open Access |
| Subject |
Social sciences -- Folklore & Mythology.
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Social sciences. |
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Folklore -- United States.
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Folklore. |
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United States. |
| Genre/Form |
Electronic book.
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Electronic books. .
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| Added Author |
Abernethy, Francis Edward, editor.
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OAPEN Foundation.
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Project Muse, distributor.
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| ISBN |
9781574410587 |
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157441058X |
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