Even in Texas, where everything’s bigger, the little guys can still win one. In the latest case, the little guys are the nearly 40 private music museums across the Lone Star State. Their defeated foe? A plan backed by Governor Greg Abbott, Austin politicians, and the state’s preservation board to build a taxpayer-funded Texas State Music Museum.
As the Houston Chronicle gleefully reports, two bills to establish the state-run museum died in the legislature late last month. That news pleased those who have long been developing their own Museum of American Music History in Houston. But the failure to create an official state music museum also gave the owners and operators of Texas’s numerous small, independent music museums cause to celebrate.
