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Author Laird, Tracey E. W

Title Austin city limits : a history / Tracey E.W. Laird
Published Oxford ; New York : Oxford University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource : illustrations
Contents A rhinoceros in your bathtub -- "Free form country folk rock science fiction gospel gun existential bluegrass guacamole opera music" -- Channeling the divine -- Austin. It's music to your ears -- A place to discover music -- A more loving approach -- We're not elitist, we've got Austin City Limits -- Don't move here -- Austin City Limits equals Big Wave -- Like heliotropes toward the sun
Summary Austin City Limits comprises nearly four decades of changes in civic identity, media, and in potential ways people experience musical meaning. This book acts as a prism pulling together the singular achievements of the PBS television show, and refracting them in ways that bear on popular media culture
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Print version record
SUBJECT Austin city limits (Television program) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n86091915
Austin city limits (Television program) fast
Subject Country music -- History and criticism
PERFORMING ARTS -- Reference.
Country music
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780199812424
019981242X
9780199394326
0199394326