Journal of Texas Music History

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The Journal of Texas Music History is the first academic journal to focus on all aspects of southwestern music history, first published in 2001 and now with subscribers from around the world. The journal is published by the Texas State University Center for Texas Music History

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Reviews [2019]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2019) Hendricks, Diana Finlay
Review of "Radio Dreams: The Story of an Outlaw DJ and a Cosmic Cowgirl" by Joe Gracey and Kimmie Rhodes (Austin: Dancing Feet Publishing, 2018).
Jack Ingram and the Roots of the Texas Country Scene
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2019) Kelly, Rich
In May of 2016 Guy Clark, a songwriting giant in both his native Texas and his adopted Nashville, passed away. A week later, a bus of Clark’s Tennessee friends delivered their mentor’s cremated remains to fellow artist Terry Allen’s Santa Fe home for a wake for the legend. The intimate picking party featured a who’s who of alternative country luminaries including Steve Earle, Emmylou Harris, Vince Gill, Joe Ely, Rodney Crowell, Lyle Lovett, and Robert Earl Keen. Among the impressive gathering of singer-songwriters, only two were under sixty years old: Allen’s son Bukka, an accomplished accordionist, and Jack Ingram.1 The 45-year-old Ingram had come a long way from his musical beginnings in Dallas’s Deep Ellum more than twentyfive years earlier. Along with the chance to honor one of his heroes and inspirations, the invitation signaled Ingram’s ascension into the pantheon of Texas’s elite singer-songwriters. Along the way Ingram pushed against the prevailing musical winds, played a key role in reviving fan interest in original Texas country music, and served as the key inspiration for the early artists of the emerging Texas Country scene.
Charlie Sexton: Too Many Ways to Fall
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2019) Crouch, Jason
Charlie Sexton’s story reads like the quintessential Texas music fable: raw talent and sheer determination tempered by frustration and missed opportunities, much of it lived in the public eye. Sexton’s career began as child prodigy guitarist in the Austin music scene, fostered by some of the most celebrated artists there. He became an international heartthrob in his teens, struggled with major label woes, and rubbed elbows and performed with jet-setting rock stars. He searched for his lyrical voice and found success in the recording studio as an acclaimed producer. The journey has been costly in many regards, but at this point in his life, Charlie Sexton is the essence of the Austin music scene distilled in one career and man. More than thirty-five years into his career, Sexton remains a vital guitarist, a commanding vocalist, and, now, an in-demand producer.
Music and Oil in Beaumont: A History of the Magnolia Petroleum Band
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2019) Proksch, Bryan
The 1920s were a turbulent time for bands in the United States. The ensembles dominated American popular music from the late nineteenth century through World War I, more or less coinciding with the famed careers of P.S. Gilmore and John Philip Sousa. In the immediate post-war period, however, bands faced numerous challenges to their preeminence. On the one hand there was no heir apparent to Sousa, who was already in his mid-sixties and faced constant speculation that he would retire. Indeed, Sousa’s force of personality would never permit retirement, but the Sousa Band’s tours gradually shortened year by year through the 1920s as his audiences and profitability declined.
Donors [2019]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2019)
The Center for Texas Music History is a nonprofit educational program designed to help students, scholars, and the general public better understand how Texas music reflects the richly diverse ethnic and cultural heritage of the American Southwest. The efforts of the donors help continue to increase awareness of how Texas music represents the unique history and culture of our state.
Letter from the Director [2019]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2019) Mellard, Jason Dean
Letter from the Director of the Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University, Dr. Jason Mellard.
The Journal of Texas Music History [2019]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2019)
The Journal of Texas Music History is the first academic journal to focus on all aspects of southwestern music history.

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Letter from the Director (2)

Donors (4)

Music and Oil in Beaumont: A History of the Magnolia Petroleum Band (8)

Charlie Sexton: Too Many Ways to Fall (20)

Jack Ingram and the Roots of the Texas Country Scene (32)

Radio Dreams: The Story of an Outlaw DJ and a Cosmic Cowgirl [Review] (48)

Contributors (50)
Religion, Freedom, and Prosperity in Oklahoma Country Music
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2018) Wenzel, Nikolai G.
No abstract prepared.
Reviews [2018]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2018) Riddle, Kelsey; Peoples, Curtis L.
Review of "Armadillo World Headquarters: A Memoir," by Eddie Wilson with Jesse Sublett, and "Delbert McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few," by Diana Finlay Hendricks.
Contributors [2018]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2018)
The Journal of Texas Music History is the first academic journal to focus on all aspects of southwestern music history. This document lists the contributors to this issue of the journal.
Donors [2013]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2013)
The Center for Texas Music History is a nonprofit educational program designed to help students, scholars, and the general public better understand how Texas music reflects the richly diverse ethnic and cultural heritage of the American Southwest. The efforts of the donors help continue to increase awareness of how Texas music represents the unique history and culture of our state.
Donors [2002 : Issue 2]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2002)
The Center for Texas Music History is a nonprofit educational program designed to help students, scholars, and the general public better understand how Texas music reflects the richly diverse ethnic and cultural heritage of the American Southwest. The efforts of the donors help continue to increase awareness of how Texas music represents the unique history and culture of our state.
The Journal of Texas Music History [2011]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2011)
The Journal of Texas Music History is the first academic journal to focus on all aspects of southwestern music history.

Table of Contents

Letter from the Director (2)

Donors (4)

"Not Fade Away": The Geographic Dimensions of Buddy Holly's Meteoric Career (8)

The Kerrville Folk Festival and the Path to Kerr-Version (22)

Cosmic Cowboys and New Hicks: The Countercultural Sounds of Austin's Progressive Country Music Scene [Review] (60)

Austin City Limits: 35 Years in Photographs [Review] (61)

Contributors (62)
'Far Out in Texas': Countercultural Sound and the Construction of Cultural Heritage in the Capital City
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2018) Ruch, Jennifer E.
This article is intended to highlight the ways in which collective public memory of 1960s-1970s counterculture forged contemporary applications of cultural heritage both in fact and in myth. Specifically, it explores the development of countercultural music scenes from the 1960s through the 1970s within the regional context of Austin, Texas. According to Dirk Spenneman, cultural heritage is the "result of human interaction with the environment and one another." Since the value that groups and communities assign to both tangible and intangible forms of culture cannot be systematically predicted, cultural heritage is a human construct.
Donors [2018]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2018)
The Center for Texas Music History is a nonprofit educational program designed to help students, scholars, and the general public better understand how Texas music reflects the richly diverse ethnic and cultural heritage of the American Southwest. The efforts of the donors help continue to increase awareness of how Texas music represents the unique history and culture of our state.
Letter from the Director [2018]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2018) Hartman, Gary A.
Letter from the Director of the Center for Texas Music History at Texas State University, Dr. Gary Hartman.
The Journal of Texas Music History [2018]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2018)
The Journal of Texas Music History is the first academic journal to focus on all aspects of southwestern music history.

Table of Contents

Letter from the Director (2)

Donors (4)

'Far Out in Texas': Countercultural Sound and the Construction of Cultural Heritage in the Capital City (8)

Religion, Freedom, and Prosperity in Oklahoma Country Music (38)

Armadillo World Headquarters: A Memoir [Review] (52)

Delbert McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few [Review] (54)

Contributors (55)
Contributors [2016]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2016)
The Journal of Texas Music History is the first academic journal to focus on all aspects of southwestern music history. This document lists the contributors to this issue of the journal.
Reviews [2016]
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2016) Oliphant, Dave; Kelly, Richard; Hendricks, Diana Finlay; Ronald, Kirsten
Reviews of "Austin in the Jazz Age" by Richard Zelade, "Weird, Yet Strange: Notes from an Austin Music Artist" by Danny Garrett, "Without Getting Killed or Caught: The Life and Music of Guy Clark" by Tamara Saviano, and "Comin' Right at Ya: How a Jewish Yankee Hippie Went Country, or, the Often Outrageous History of Asleep at the Wheel" by Ray Benson and David Menconi.
Cosmic Cowboys, Thunderbirds, and Punks: From Austin Countercultures to the 'Live Music Capital of the World'
(The Center for Texas Music History, 2016) Watson, Jonathan
The complex musical traditions of the American Southwest reflect the vastly diverse ethnic cultures long present throughout the region. For hundreds of years, the Southwest has been a cultural crossroads for Native Americans, Hispanics, Anglos, African Americans, Germans, Czechs, and many others, all of whom have left an important imprint on the area's musical history. As historian Gary Hartman notes, "The number, variety, and placement of the state's ethnic communities are unique in all of North America, and they have allowed for a prolific cross-pollination of musical cultures that has given Texas music its special character." Today, music continues to be a vital cultural element in defining what it means to be Texan.

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