TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peeler,W.Chase
TI  - On the Porch: Life and Music in Terlingua, Texas 
SN  - 9781477323656
AV  - F394.T285 P44 2021
U1  - 976.4/932 23
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - Austin : 
PB  - University of Texas Press, 
KW  - Gentrification
KW  - Texas
KW  - Terlingua
KW  - Music
KW  - MUSIC / General
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Terlingua, Terlingua Texas, Texas music, West Texas, musicians, music culture, gentrification, borderlands
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; Prologue: On the Porch --; Introduction: Hundred Miles from nowhere --; Chapter 1 Starlight and stage lights --; Chapter 2 In the incubator --; Chapter 3 The Austin effect --; Chapter 4 Voices from Both sides --; Chapter 5 Getting fatter --; Epilogue: Green chile stew --; Acknowledgments --; Notes --; Index; restricted access
N2  - In sunbaked Terlingua, Texas (pop., a few hundred), residents joke that there is a musician under every rock. Located ten miles from Mexico in one of the remotest corners of the United States, the town had a recording studio before it had a school, a well-stocked grocery store, or even a water utility. Open jam sessions are a daily ritual, and some songwriters make a living from their craft despite being thousands of miles from New York or Nashville. Why does such a tiny and isolated place ring with singing and guitars? Based on more than two years of on-the-ground research, On the Porch tells the story of this small but remarkable community. Chase Peeler invites us into the music, introducing us to a cast of characters as unique as the town itself. He reveals how novices and experts perform together—a rarity in contemporary America. He recounts the devastation brought on by a border closure and describes how music is once again uniting people across the Rio Grande. He considers the impact of gentrification in an off-the-grid paradise, and how this threatens to transform a precarious musical ecosystem. On the Porch is a celebration of human musicality, of the role that music plays and can play in our lives, both in Terlingua and beyond
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7560/323649
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781477323656
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781477323656/original
ER  -