Cool Town
How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
Format: Book
Description: 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
"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"-- Provided by publisher.
Contents:
The Factory -- The art school -- Barber Street -- Tasty World -- Local color -- New town.
Subjects:
Alternative rock music -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 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 -- Social aspects -- Georgia -- Athens -- History -- 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.
ISBN:
9781469654874
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
PERFORMING ARTS Music Popular Hal | Main (Downtown) | Second Level, Nonfiction | In |