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Author Hale, Grace Elizabeth, author.

Title Cool town : how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture / Grace Elizabeth Hale
Published Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
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Description 1 online resource (371 pages) : illustrations
Contents Introduction : An unlikely Bohemia -- The Factory -- The art school -- Barber Street -- Tasty World -- Local color -- New town -- Conclusion: Hunting divine
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"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on February 26, 2020)
Subject 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.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Alternative rock music
Bohemianism
Nineteen eighties
Youth, White
SUBJECT Athens (Ga.) -- History -- 20th century
Subject Georgia -- Athens
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781469654898
146965489X
9781469654881
1469654881
Other Titles How Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture