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Hale, Grace Elizabeth.
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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.
Athens (Ga.) -- History -- 20th century.
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Hale, Grace Elizabeth.
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.
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Cool
town
:
how
Athens
,
Georgia
,
launched
alternative
music
and
changed
American
culture
/ Grace Elizabeth Hale.
by
Hale, Grace Elizabeth.
The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Call #:
306.48426 H162c
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.
Athens
(Ga.) -- History -- 20th century.
Series
Ferris and Ferris book.
ISBN:
9781469664057 (pbk)
Description:
371 p. : ill. ; 24 cm.
Bibliography:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Summary:
"In the summer of 1978, the B-52's conquered the New York underground. A year later, the band's self-titled debut album burst onto the Billboard charts, capturing the imagination of fans and
music
critics worldwide. The fact that the group had formed in the sleepy southern college
town
of
Athens
,
Georgia
, only increased the fascination. Soon, more
Athens
bands followed the B-52's into the vanguard of the new
American
music
that would come to be known as '
alternative
,' including R.E.M., who catapulted over the course of the 1980s to the top of the musical mainstream. As acts like the B-52's, R.E.M., and Pylon drew the eyes of New York tastemakers southward, they discovered in
Athens
an unexpected mecca of
music
, experimental art, DIY spirit, and progressive politics -- a creative underground as vibrant as any to be found in the country's major cities. In
Athens
in the eighties, if you were young and willing to live without much money, anything seemed possible.
Cool
Town
reveals the passion, vitality, and enduring significance of a bohemian scene that became a model for others to follow. Grace Elizabeth Hale experienced the
Athens
scene as a student, small-business owner, and band member. Blending personal recollection with a historian's eye, she reconstructs the networks of bands, artists, and friends that drew on the things at hand to make a new art of the possible, transforming
American
culture
along the way. In a story full of
music
and brimming with hope, Hale shows
how
an unlikely cast of characters in an unlikely place made a surprising and beautiful new world."--Publisher.
Genre:
Music
criticism and reviews.
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