02121cam a2200373 i 4500 432308940 TxAuBib 20200819120000.0 190814s2020||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2019035107 9781469654874 $27.00 1469654873 $27.00 (OCoLC)1113423368 TxAuBib rda Hale, Grace Elizabeth,. Cool town [ANF] : how Athens, Georgia, launched alternative music and changed American culture / Grace Elizabeth Hale. Chapel Hill : The University of North Carolina Press, [2020] 371 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier sti rdacontent rdamedia rdacarrier Includes bibliographical references and index. "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. 20200819. 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. TXGPL