TY - BOOK AU - Abernethy,Francis Edward ED - Open Access Publishing in European Networks. ED - Project Muse. TI - What's Going On? (In Modern Texas Folklore) T2 - Texas Folklore Society Publications SN - 9781574410587 PB - Texas A & M University Press [distributor] KW - Social Science KW - Folklore & Mythology KW - Folklore KW - United States KW - Electronic book KW - Electronic books. KW - local N1 - Open Access N2 - Annotation; This collection of essays from the 1970s describes the customs, traditions, songs, and stories by which future anthropologists will analyze that decade. The rodeos and chain letters and bumper stickers, Neiman Marcus and fat stock shows, gospel conventions and underground newspapers, CB radios and university ghosts, backwoods beer busts and the folklore of marijuana, Jack Ruby and the Kennedy assassination. This publication also looks at zydeco, Western Swing, gospel music, Texas country music, and the rise of redneck rock, by such writers as Joseph Lomax, Guy Logsdon, Bill Malone, and Jan Reid UR - https://muse.jhu.edu/book/72161/ ER -