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Hale, Grace Elizabeth, author.
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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.
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Cool town : how Athe...
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Cool town : how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture / Grace Elizabeth Hale.
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Hale, Grace Elizabeth, author.
Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020]
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.
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9781469654874 hardcover alkaline paper
1469654873 hardcover alkaline paper
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371 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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Introduction: An unlikely Bohemia -- The Factory -- The art school -- Barber Street -- Tasty World -- Local color -- New town -- Conclusion: Hunting divine.
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"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"--
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