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.
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F. E. ABERNETHY, secretary/editor of the Texas Folklore 
Society, taught English and folklore at Stephen F. Austin 
State University.