In the 1950’s country rock was an unknown genre to many mainstream audiences and with the emergence of rockabilly artists in the late 1960’s country rock grew and continued to grow in popularity during the 1970’s through the 1990’s because of style, sound, and the new way country rock audiences perceived it. Country rock from the 1950’s to the 1990’s has been perceived similarly and differently by its audiences over time because of it’s original country sound and its similar rock sound. Country
band” and inspired a generation of young women to pick up guitars and write songs. At the same time, forgotten in this mix is the Screaming Sirens, a group of five L.A women who fused a particular type of punk rock and country music described as “Cowpunk” along with a wild stage show that earned them a widespread and notorious reputation. Uniquely for the time, the sirens were not under the control of a male authority figure like the Runaways were with their manager Kim Fowley. This Screaming Sirens
Fashion is a form of non-verbal communication, expressing various aspects of an individual’s life and character. If it is true that ‘clothes make the man. Naked people have little or no influence on society,’ (Twain, 1927, pg6) then a woman can make herself a man through fashion. Society constructs an image of what is masculine or feminine and, although those who choose to cross genders may believe themselves to be individual and out of the mould of what is considered the norm, they are more often