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Right to the Juke Joint : A Personal History of American Music /

"The cowboy songs and dusty Texas car rides of his youth set Patrick B. Mullen on a lifelong journey into the sprawling Arcadia of American music. That music fused so-called civilized elements with native forms to produce everything from Zydeco to Conjunto to jazz to Woody Guthrie. The civilize...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Mullen, Patrick B., 1941- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Urbana : University of Illinois Press, 2018.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; 1. They All Go Native on a Saturday Night: Civilized versus Native in American Vernacular Music; 2. Yes Indeed: Race, Revival, and Rock 'n' Roll; 3. Let's All Get Dixie Fried: Sexuality, Masculinity, Race, and Rockabilly; 4. Take Me Higher: Dancing, Drinking, and Doing Drugs; 5. Blues and the Abstract Truth: From Blues to Jazz; 6. I Was So Much Older Then: Folk Revival into Rock 'n' Roll; 7. The Night They Drove Old Dixie Down: Bluegrass, Folk Rock, and Outlaw Country; 8. Come Back to Texas: From "Bogalusa Boogie" to "Soy Chicano"; Notes.