Cool Town - How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American

"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"--

About the author

Grace Elizabeth Hale is the Commonwealth Professor of American Studies and History at the University of Virginia. Her previous books include A Nation of Outsiders: How the White Middle Class Fell in Love with Rebellion in Postwar America and Making Whiteness: The Culture of Segregation in the South, 1890-1940.

Product details

• Authors: Grace Elizabeth Hale
• Publisher: University Of North Carolina
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 28.02.2021
• EAN: 9781469664057
• ISBN: 978-1-4696-6405-7
• No. of pages: 384
• Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Sociology > General, dictionaries