(In Modern Texas Folklore)
Edited by F. E. Abernethy
Publications of the Texas Folklore Society XL. Published in 1976
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What's Going On? (In Modern Texas Folklore) Edited by F. E. Abernethy Publications of the Texas Folklore Society XL. Published in 1976 |
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.F. E. ABERNETHY, secretary/editor of the Texas Folklore Society, taught English and folklore at Stephen F. Austin State University.
What's Going On?
ISBN 1-57441-058-X $29.95s6x9. 309 pp. 51 b&w photos. Index.
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