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Cool town : how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture
- Title
- Cool town : how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture / Grace Elizabeth Hale.
- Author
- Hale, Grace Elizabeth
- Publication
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- ©2020
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Details
- Description
- 371 pages : illustrations; 25 cm
- Summary
- "In Cool Town, Grace Elizabeth Hale examines the town's flourishing as a Southern alternative culture mecca, emerging out of the civil rights struggles of the 1960s and early 1970s to become home for a set of artistic, social, and political alternatives to northern liberalism or urban punk on the left and Sunbelt Republicanism on the right. In this moment of cultural flourishing, Hale argues, a generation of young white southerners could not or did not see themselves fleeing the region, but also did not fit the cultural or political options available at home. So they blended a DIY ethos, local traditions, and musical and other influences from outside to create their own thing-the "Athens scene"--
- Subject
- 1900-1999
- Alternative rock music > Social aspects > History > Georgia > Athens > 20th century
- Alternative rock music > Georgia > Athens > History and criticism
- Bohemianism > Georgia > Athens > History > 20th century
- Youth, White > Georgia > Athens > History > 20th century
- Nineteen eighties
- Alternative rock music
- Bohemianism
- Youth, White
- Georgia > Athens
- Genre/Form
- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
- History.
- Bibliography (note)
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-352) and index.
- Contents
- Introduction : An unlikely Bohemia -- The Factory -- The art school -- Barber Street -- Tasty World -- Local color -- New town -- Conclusion: Hunting divine.
- Call Number
- JNE 20-112
- ISBN
- 9781469654874
- 1469654873
- 9781469654881 (canceled/invalid)
- LCCN
- 2019035107
- OCLC
- 1113423368
- Author
- Hale, Grace Elizabeth, author.
- Title
- Cool town : how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture / Grace Elizabeth Hale.
- Publisher
- Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
- Copyright Date
- ©2020
- Type of Content
- text
- Type of Medium
- unmediated
- Type of Carrier
- volume
- Bibliography
- Includes bibliographical references (pages 299-352) and index.
- Chronological Term
- 1900-1999
- Research Call Number
- JNE 20-112