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Cool Town - How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture (Paperback)
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Cool Town - How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture (Paperback)
Series: Ferris and Ferris Books
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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.
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