Bibliograph

Cool town, how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture, Grace Elizabeth Hale

Type

Label

Cool town, how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture, Grace Elizabeth Hale

Language

eng

resource.governmentPublication

government publication of a state province territory dependency etc

Illustrations

illustrations

Index

index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Cool town

Nature of contents

bibliography

Oclc number

1113423368

Responsibility statement

Grace Elizabeth Hale

Sub title

how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture

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

Table Of Contents

Introduction: An unlikely Bohemia -- The Factory -- The art school -- Barber Street -- Tasty World -- Local color -- New town -- Conclusion: Hunting divine

Target audience

adult

Classification