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Rockabilly
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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
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A school in the East Midlands, new term 1981-82. A new boy enters the class and is introduced by the teacher. He has spiky hair and wears a T-shirt, Doc Martens and tight denims with tiny turn-ups. He is instructed to sit [in] the nearest empty seat. The boy beside him has a flat-top and wears a tartan shirt, crepe shoes and loose denims with big turn-ups. As the latest addition to the class takes his seat he mutters to his new neighbour “Rockabilly bastard!” “Fucking Punk” replies his schoolmat
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― Hells Bent On Rockin': A History of Psychobilly
― Hells Bent On Rockin': A History of Psychobilly
