All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music
All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music
University of Texas Press | October 1, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0292709552 | 224 pages | PDF | 3.25 MB
University of Texas Press | October 1, 2005 | ISBN-10: 0292709552 | 224 pages | PDF | 3.25 MB
From country and blues to rap and punk, Texas music is all over the map, figuratively and literally. Texas musicians have pioneered new musical genres, instruments, and playing styles, proving themselves to be daring innovators who often call the tune for musicians around the country and even abroad. To introduce some of these trailblazing Texas musicians to a wider audience and pay tribute to their accomplishments, Michael Corcoran profiles thirty-two of them in "All Over the Map: True Heroes of Texas Music".Corcoran covers musicians who work in a wide range of musical genres, including blues, gospel, country, rap, indie rock, pop, Cajun, Tejano, conjunto, funk, honky-tonk, rockabilly, rhythm and blues, and Western swing.