Journal of Texas Music History
The Journal of Texas Music History is the first academic journal to focus on all aspects of southwestern music history. Now in its 23rd year of publication, the Journal has subscribers from all over the world.
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Volume 1, Number 1
Contents
- Texas Myth/Texas Music | Bill C. Malone
- "Uno, Dos, One, Two, Tres, Quatro..." | Joe Nick Patoski
- Kenny Dorham and Leo Wright: Texas Bebop Messengers to the World | Dave Oliphant
- Música Tejana: Nuestra Música | Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr.
- Texas Centennial 1936: African-American Texans and the Third National Folk Festival | Kevin Mooney
- West Texas Fiddlers and the Buddy Holly Center
- "Hardy Pioneers" and Amarillo's Panhandle Fiddle Contests | Joe Carr
- Ridin' Old Paint: Documenting the Canadian River Breaks Fiddle Tradition | Any Wilkinson
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Volume 1, Number 2
Contents
- That's Right, Your Not from Texas: Exploring Some Outside Influences on Texas Music | Karl Hagstrom Miller
- The Blue Yodeler is Coming to Town: A Week with Jimmy Rodgers in West Texas | Joe W. Specht
- Southeast Texas: Hothouse of Zydeco | Rodger Wood
- Marvin "Smokey" Montgomery: A Life in Texas Music | John Dempsey
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Volume 2, Number 1
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- Janis Joplin: The Hippie Blues Singer as Feminist Heroine | Jerry Rodnitzky
- Cowboys and Indians: The International State | Craig D. Hillis
- Texas Music Archives: The Southwestern Writers Collection at Southwest Texas State University | Steven L. Davis
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Volume 2, Number 2
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- The Bob Bullock Texas State History Museum Celebrates Texas Country Music | Gary Hartman
- Bob Wills: The King of Western Swing | Rush Evans
- Uplifts and Downbeats: What if Jazz History Included the Prairie View Co-eds? | Sherrie Tucker
- "Sandstorm": Reflections on the Roots of West Texas Music | Nolan Poterfield
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Volume 3, Number 1
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- I Forgot to Remember to Forget: Elvis Presley in Texas | 1955 - Joe Specht
- Counterculture Cowboys: Progressive Texas Country of the 1970s & 1980s | Cory Lock
- The Invisible Genius: Steve Jordan | Michael Corcoran
- The New Braunfels Museum of Art & Music: A New Showplace for the Arts in Texas | Anthony Lyle
- The Handbook of Texas Music: An Important New Reference Book on Texas Music History
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Volume 3, Number 2
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- New Songs of Blind Lemon Jefferson | Luigi Monge & David Evans
- Celebrating "Das Deutsche Lied" in Texas | Jean M. Heide
- Masters of Traditional Arts: An Organic Approach to Diversity | Jay F. Brakefield
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Volume 4, Number 1
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- The Wisconsin-Texas Jazz Nexus | Dave Oliphant
- A History of the Texas Recording Industry | Gary Hickinbotham
- Texas Music in Europe | Gary Hartman
- The Texas Music Museum | Chester Rasson
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Volume 4, Number 2
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- "The 'Baptist Beat" in Modern Jazz: Texan Gene Ramey in Kansas City & New York" | Cameron Addis
- The History of Eraly Bluegrass in Texas | Rod Maag, with assistance from Alta Campbell
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Volume 5
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- "It's the Music": Kent Finlay's Cheatham Street Warehouse in San Marcos, Texas | Gregg Andrews
- San Antonio's West Side Sound | Allen Olsen
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Volume 6
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- "The Texas Shuffle": Lone Star Underpinnings of the Kansas City Jazz Sound | Joe Bailey
- Texas Jazz Veterans: A Collection of Oral Histories | Sterlin Holmesly
- Texas Dance Halls: History, Culture, and Community | Gail Folkins
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Volume 7
Contents
- Woody Guthrie and the Christian Left: Jesus and "Communism" | Ron Briley
- The Post-World War II "Chitlin' Circuit" in San Antonio and the Long-Term Effects of Intercultural Congeniality | Allen O. Olsen
- A "Cowboy's Sweetheart": Kathy Dell's Musical Career in the Crossroadds Region of South Texas | Mel Brown
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Volume 8
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- "Physic Opera" On the Road: Texas Musicians in Medicine Shows | Gene Fowler
- ¡Viva Terlingual!: Jerry Jeff Walker, Live Recording, and the Authenticity of Progressive Country Music | Travis D. Stimeling
- The Accidental Texan: How Johnny Cuviello Became a Texas Playboy | Deirdre Lannon
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Volume 9
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- Tary Owens, Texas Folklorist and Musician: A Life Remembered | Ruth K. Sullivan
- "Don't Let the Stars Get in Your Eyes": Slim Wilet's Idiosyncratic Chart-Topper Lives On | Joe W. Specht
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Volume 10
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- Home with the Armadillo: Public Memory and Performance in the 1970's Austin Music Scene | Jason Dean Mellard
- I'll Be Here in the Morning: The Songwriting Legacy of Towns Van Zandt | Brian Atkinson
- Gene Autry and The Phantom Empire: The Cowboy in the Wired West of the Future | Ron Briley
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Volume 11
Contents
- "Not Fade Away": The Geographic Dimensions of Buddy Holly's Meteoric Career | Kevin Romig
- The Kerrville Folk Festival and the Path to Kerr-Vision | Erinn R. Barefield
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Volume 12
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- The Creation of "Texas Music" Doug Sahm's Atlantic Sessions and the Progressive-Country Era | Travis Stimeling
- The Many Faces of "Milk Cow Blues" A Case Study | Jean A. Boyd & Patrick Kelly
- The South Austin Popular Culture Center | Stephen F. Austin
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Volume 13
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- Talk to Me: The History of San Antonio's West Side Sound | Alex La Rotta
- When We Were Young and There Were Rats on the Wall: Punk in Austin, the Raul's Years | Mike Hooker
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Volume 14
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- Tejanos and the Making of the Texas Jazz Festival, 1959-2013 | Guadalupe San Miguel, Jr.
- The Lubbock Texas Quartet and Odis 'Pop' Echols: Promoting Southern Gospel Music on the High Plains of Texas | Curtis Peoples
- The Cowboy Song as Art Song | Daniel M. Raessler
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Volume 15
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- Delbert McClinton: One of the Fortunate Few | Diana Finlay Hendricks
- "Amarillo By Morning" The Life and Songs of Terry Stafford | Joe W. Specht
- Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982 | Alan Schaefer
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Volume 16
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- John Lomax's Southern States Recording Expedition: Brownsville, Texas, 1939 | Alberto Rodriguez & Rene Torres
- Eddie Stout, Dialtone Records, and the Making of a Blues Scene in Austin | Josep Pedro
- Cosmic Cowboys, Thunderbirds, and Punks: From Austin Countercultures to the "Live Music Capital of the World" | Jonathan Watson
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Volume 17
Contents
- Eddie Preston: Texas Trumpeter Fallen Through the Cracks | Dave Oliphant
- Lone Star Brewing: Beer, Progressive Country Music, and the 'Texas Mystique' | Joseph R. Fox
- Putting the "Folk" Back into Houston's Music History | Norie Guthrie
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Volume 18
Contents
- 'Far Out in Texas': Countercultural Sound and the Construction of Cultural Heritage in the Capital City | Jennifer Ruch
- Religion, Freedom, and Prosperity in Oklahoma Country Music | Nikolai G. Wenzel
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Volume 19
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- Music and Oil in Beaumont: A History of the Magnolia Petroleum Band | Bryan Proksch
- Charlie Sexton: Too Many Ways to Fall | Jason Crouch
- Jack Ingram and the Roots of the Texas Country Scene | Rich Kelly
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Volume 20
Contents:
- Manuel "Cowboy" Donley: Originator of Austin's Modern Tejano Music Scene | Evaliza Fuentes
- "¡Vamonos pa'l Chuco!": Punk Rock, Power, and Memory in El Paso, Texas | Tara Lopez
- Outlaws & Armadillos: Country's Roaring '70s at the Country Music Hall of Fame and Museum | Jennifer Ruch
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Volume 21
Contents:
- War News Blues: Lightnin' Hopkins, World War II, Korea, and Vietnam | Joe Specht
- Houston Roots and the Texas Gulf Coast Sound Embodied in the Music of Los Skarnales and Nick Gaitan and the Umbrella Man | Mary Manning
- The Perez Family Orchestra: Three Generations of Family Music, 1893-1950s | Marguerite Gutierrez Hirsch
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Volume 22
Contents:
- An Accidental Journalist: The Improbable Rise of Jan Reid | Diana Finlay Hendricks
- San Antonio's Garage Rock Scene, The Children, and Texas's Great Lost Psych Album | Bill Baird
- The Heavy Metal Capital of the World: KMAC/KISS, Stone City Attractions, and San Antonio's Hard Rock Legacies | Jake Dromgoole
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Volume 23
Contents:
- Get to Heaven, Some Sort of Way: The Career of Black Rock Maverick Bevis M. Griffin | Jason Crouch
- Local Memory: Music in Austin before The Armadillo | Michael Schmidt
- The Last Filling Station: Robert Earl Keen's Texas | Rich Kelly