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Author Hale, Grace Elizabeth, author. Author.

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

Publication Info. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  781.66 HAL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  781.66 HALE    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  306.484 HALE    Check Shelf
Description 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Gender group: gdr Women lcdgt
Occupational/field of activity group: occ History teachers lcdgt
Occupational/field of activity group: occ University and college faculty members lcdgt
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
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.
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.
Athens (Ga.) -- History -- 20th century.
Alternative rock music. (OCoLC)fst00806181
Bohemianism. (OCoLC)fst00835564
Nineteen eighties. (OCoLC)fst01037781
Youth, White. (OCoLC)fst01763086
Georgia -- Athens. (OCoLC)fst01208258
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc. (OCoLC)fst01411635
History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9781469654874 (hardcover alkaline paper)
1469654873 (hardcover alkaline paper)
9781469664057 (paperback)
1469664054 (paperback)
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