Introduction
Making Country Music “Progressive”
This chapter details the musical, social, ideological, and industrial roots of the Austin music scene through the lens of the emergence of folksinging as a distinctly countercultural act at venues such as Threadgill's restaurant in the 1960s, the construction of Kenneth Threadgill as a folk artist and touchstone of an idealized Texan past, the development of the “progressive country” radio format at Austin radio station KOKE-FM in the early 1970s, and the grassroots entrepreneurship of the Armadillo World Headquarters. Through these case studies, the chapter explores how participants in Austin's progressive country music scene negotiated a fine line between its public rhetoric of resistance to the corporate music industry and unchecked economic growth and its own actions to develop the scene into a vehicle for economic and cultural development in the city.
Keywords: resistance, music industry, Armadillo World Headquarters, entrepreneurship, Anglo-Texan
Oxford Scholarship Online requires a subscription or purchase to access the full text of books within the service. Public users can however freely search the site and view the abstracts and keywords for each book and chapter.
Please, subscribe or login to access full text content.
If you think you should have access to this title, please contact your librarian.
To troubleshoot, please check our FAQs , and if you can't find the answer there, please contact us .