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Where Misfits Fit - Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks (Hardcover)
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Where Misfits Fit - Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks (Hardcover)
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All regions and places are unique in their own way, but the Ozarks
have an enduring place in American culture. Studying the Ozarks
offers the ability to explore American life through the lens of one
of the last remaining cultural frontiers in American society.
Perhaps because the Ozarks were relatively isolated from mainstream
American society, or were at least relegated to the margins of it,
their identity and culture are liminal and oftentimes counter to
mainstream culture. Whatever the case, looking at the Ozarks offers
insights into changing ideas about what it means to be an American
and, more specifically, a special type of southerner. In Where
Misfits Fit: Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks, Thomas
Michael Kersen explores the people who made a home in the Ozarks
and the ways they contributed to American popular culture. Drawing
on a wide variety of sources, Kersen argues the area attracts and
even nurtures people and groups on the margins of the mainstream.
These include UFO enthusiasts, cults, musical troupes, and
back-to-the-land groups. Kersen examines how the Ozarks became a
haven for creative, innovative, even nutty people to express
themselves-a place where community could be reimagined in a variety
of ways. It is in these communities that communitas, or a deep
social connection, emerges. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a
facet of the Ozarks, and Kersen often compares two or more cases to
generate new insights and questions. Chapters examine real and
imagined identity and highlight how the area has contributed to
popular culture through analysis of the Eureka Springs energy
vortex, fictional characters like Li'l Abner, cultic activity,
environmentally minded communes, and the development of rockabilly
music, and near communal rock bands such as Black Oak Arkansas.
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