TOO COUNTRY FOR ROCK & TOO ROCK FOR COUNTRY: COWPUNK AS REGIONAL IDENTITY, MUTED MEMORY, AND THE AESTHETIC ETHOS OF ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE

dc.contributor.advisor West, Carroll
dc.contributor.author Ruch, Jennifer
dc.contributor.committeemember Dougan, John
dc.contributor.committeemember Martin, Brenden
dc.contributor.committeemember Riley Sousa, Ashley
dc.date.accessioned 2022-08-03T01:05:02Z
dc.date.available 2022-08-03T01:05:02Z
dc.date.issued 2022
dc.date.updated 2022-08-03T01:05:02Z
dc.description.abstract This dissertation investigates the recording and performance ethos of alternative subsets of regional punk rock and its unique intersection with country music. This analysis will dissect the ways in which regional music scenes embody aesthetics and iconography representative of southern, western, or country identity. In doing so, the study addresses questions directly related to the state of cowpunk as a disintegrating thread of cultural memory and its muted legacy. I also interrogate the complex relationships that exist between performers, audiences, and the music business, as well as examining cultural geography, material culture, and the formation of youth subcultures in the built environment. This analysis brings regional subsets of popular music to the forefront of contemporary public history and music studies, arguing their importance as an integrated and highly interdisciplinary angle by which to deconstruct musical subculture. While cowpunk is just one example of this methodological thread, it is an applicable framework that both highlights and decodes the ways in which the public consume popular music and repackage subculture according to regional identity.
dc.description.degree Ph.D.
dc.identifier.uri https://jewlscholar.mtsu.edu/handle/mtsu/6746
dc.language.rfc3066 en
dc.publisher Middle Tennessee State University
dc.source.uri http://dissertations.umi.com/mtsu:11615
dc.subject Cowpunk
dc.subject Popular Music
dc.subject Public History
dc.subject Punk
dc.subject Music history
dc.subject Music
dc.subject History
dc.thesis.degreelevel doctoral
dc.title TOO COUNTRY FOR ROCK & TOO ROCK FOR COUNTRY: COWPUNK AS REGIONAL IDENTITY, MUTED MEMORY, AND THE AESTHETIC ETHOS OF ALTERNATIVE PERFORMANCE
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