Texas (Credo Reference): Culture and Economy

African-American music that originated in the work songs and Negro spirituals of the rural American South in the late 19th century.

Country music is a genre that developed out of the folk traditions of primarily white, working-class Americans living in the rural south and Appalachia. It is a blend of Anglo-Celtic fiddle tunes, traditional ballads, cowboy songs, and African American blues and work songs.

US cattle herder working on horseback; one of the great figures of American history and part of the folklore of the rugged adventurous West portrayed in books, films, and plays.

Culture Wars in America: An Encyclopedia of Issues, Viewpoints, and Voices
Perhaps no other group in the United States is as diverse in culture, nationality, phenotype, tradition, political sophistication, ethos, migration trends, acculturation rate, and even language as Hispanics, or Latinos.

iN Cultural Studies: Holidays Around the World
SXSW, also known as South by Southwest, is a ten-day event comprised of three concurrent festivals that take place in Austin, Texas. The inaugural South by Southwest Music and Media Conference was held in 1987. Organizers hoped to create an event to draw artists and music industry professionals from around the country to Austin, giving local musicians the opportunity to perform for a wider audience.

From The Columbia Encyclopedia
American popular music form originating in the Southeast (country music) and the Southwest and West (western music). The two regional styles coalesced in the 1920s when recorded material became available in rural areas, and they were further consolidated after musicians from various sections met and mixed during service in World War II. The primary traditional difference between the two styles is that country music is simpler and uses fewer instruments, relying on guitar, fiddle, banjo, and harmonica, whereas the music of the Southwest tends toward steel guitars and big bands whose style verges on swing.

In 100 Ideas that Changed Street Style
Inspired in no small part by the romantic iconography and mythology of the cowboy figure - as outsider, law-giver, traveller; as solitary, tough, self-sufficient and at one with his environment - many subcultures have taken elements of western dress and made them their own.

In Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
The U.S. aerospace industry is a network of private and public organizations that develop, engineer, build, and operate all manner of crafts designed to fly within the atmosphere, orbit the earth, or launch into space

In Gale Encyclopedia of U.S. Economic History
The cattle industry, in which livestock farmers and ranchers raise and sell cattle for consumption, has been a substantial part of the U.S. agricultural economy since the nineteenth century.

Most important of the vegetable fibers, and the plant from which the fiber is harvested.

Although the term did not evolve until the 1970s, it has been used to describe any technology engaged in the inputting, processing, storage, transmission, and retrieval of information, such as the codex, printing systems, facsimile machines, satellites, and others.

Mixture of flammable gases found in the Earth's crust (often in association with petroleum). It is one of the world's three main fossil fuels (with coal and oil).

The business of discovering oil (petroleum), extracting it from the ground, refining it into a variety of products, and distributing it to the public.

In The American Heritage(R) Dictionary of the English Language

Any of a breed of beef cattle originating in the Texas area, probably from interbreeding of Spanish and English cattle, and having very long horns.