From the southern influence on nineteenth-century New York to the
musical legacy of late-twentieth-century Athens, Georgia, to the
cutting-edge cuisines of twenty-first-century Asheville, North
Carolina, the bohemian South has long contested traditional views
of the region. Yet, even as the fruits of this creative South have
famously been celebrated, exported, and expropriated, the region
long was labeled a cultural backwater. This timely and illuminating
collection uses bohemia as a novel lens for reconsidering more
traditional views of the South. Exploring wide-ranging locales,
such as Athens, Austin, Black Mountain College, Knoxville, Memphis,
New Orleans, and North Carolina's Research Triangle, each essay
challenges popular interpretations of the South, while highlighting
important bohemian sub- and countercultures. In addition to tracing
the historical legacy of southern bohemians, the collection
traverses such contemporary issues as contested memory, the
commodification of the bohemian South, and how southern bohemians
play with traditions in new ways that compliment, contradict, and
commingle with the region's past traditional practices and ideas.
The Bohemian South provides an important perspective in the New
South as an epicenter for progress, innovation, and
experimentation. Contributors include Scott Barretta, Shawn
Chandler Bingham, Jaime Cantrell, Jon Horne Carter, Alex Sayf
Cummings, Lindsey A. Freeman, Grace E. Hale, Joanna Levin, Joshua
Long, Daniel S. Margolies, Chris Offutt, Zandria F. Robinson, Allen
Shelton, Daniel Cross Turner, Zackary Vernon, and Edward Whitley.
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