Country Fiddle, San Antonio Blues, Cowpunk Artifacts: Departures in Texas Music History

9:00 AM

Sponsored by Center for Texas Music History – Texas State University

Session Chair Jason Mellard, Texas State University

Presentations by Marc Molina, "Cherry Street Blues: Tracing San Antonio’s Black Music History," University Texas at El Paso; Jennifer Ruch, "The Material Culture of Cowpunk: A Study of the Aesthetic Ethos of Alternative Performance," Middle Tennessee University; Kevin Fontenot, "When Uncle Henry Played: Two Texans and the Birth of Commercial Country Music," Ann Richards School, Austin Independent School District