Homegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982

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dc.contributor.authorSchaefer, Alan
dc.date.accessioned2018-08-14T19:51:44Z
dc.date.available2018-08-14T19:51:44Z
dc.date.issued2015-01
dc.description.abstractThe opening of the Vulcan Gas Company in 1967 marked a significant turning point in the history of music, art, and underground culture in Austin, Texas. Modeled after the psychedelic ballrooms of San Francisco, the Vulcan Gas Company presented the best of local and national psychedelic rock and roll as well as the kings and queens of the blues. The primary medium for advertising performances at the venue was the poster, though these posters were not simple examples of commercial art with stock publicity photos and redundant designs. The Vulcan Gas Company posters -- a radical body of work drawing from psychedelia, surrealism, art nouveau, old west motifs, and portraiture -- established a blueprint for the modern concert poster and helped articulate the visual language of Austin's emerging underground scenes.
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dc.format.extent10 pages
dc.format.medium1 file (.pdf)
dc.identifier.issn1535-7104
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10877/7520
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherThe Center for Texas Music Historyen_US
dc.sourceJournal of Texas Music History, 2015, Vol. 15, Issue 1, Article 3.
dc.subjectTexas
dc.subjectMusic
dc.subjectHistory
dc.subjectVulcan Gas Company
dc.titleHomegrown: Austin Music Posters 1967 to 1982en_US
dc.typeArticle

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