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On the Porch : Life and Music in Terlingua, Texas / W. Chase Peeler.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Austin : University of Texas Press, [2021]Copyright date: ©2021Description: 1 online resource (256 p.) : 19 b&w photosContent type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781477323656
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 976.4/932 23
LOC classification:
  • F394.T285 P44 2021
  • F394.T285 P44 2021
Other classification:
  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

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