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Shank, Barry. "Identity, Community, Postmodernity: The Rock’n'roll Scene in Austin, Texas," University of Pennsylvania, October 1991. Advisor: Janice Radway (18, 2, 14)
Drawing on interviews with musicians, fans, and local representatives of the music industry, as well as my own participation, this dissertation studies the production and consumption of popular music in the rock’n'roll scene in Austin, Texas, mapping out the boundaries of this scene and describing the discursive means whereby these boundaries are policed. I use Julia Kristeva’s concepts of the semiotic and the subject in process to explore the relations between individual experiences of pleasure and fandom and the historically developed cultural, political, and material context of the scene. I essay a preliminary theory of musicality in an attempt to explain the power of musical practice to cross discursive boundaries, blending diverse groups into a postmodern community.
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