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Rockabilly
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Many of the first generation of Psychobillies were often ignorant about the history of Rockabilly and gained their love of Rock’n’Roll not from lovingly collecting twenty-five year old 45’s tracked down in dusty American record stores but by watching ‘Grease’ and ‘Happy Days’ alongside seeing Matchbox and The Stray Cats on ‘Top Of The Pops’. This was a generation weaned on ‘The Wanderers’, ‘Lemon Popsicle’ and stacks of low-rent TV advertised Rock’n’Roll albums.... They may not have known who [1
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― Hells Bent On Rockin': A History of Psychobilly
― Hells Bent On Rockin': A History of Psychobilly
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The modern rockabilly rebel is inevitably facing a tension between succumbing to the pull of the past—a kind of remembering—and a forgetting that the integrity of any embrace of the past is challenged as contrivance and dissimulation by the near-universal availability of the once-local, once-rebellious, and once-novel style.
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― Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance
― Performance Anxiety in Media Culture: The Trauma of Appearance and the Drama of Disappearance
