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[close] “A scholarly tome in which the author, a professor of history and American studies at the University of Virginia, relieves how Athens remade itself culturally in the 80s. Switching from a conservative southern backwater built around its football team it became Generation X’s artistic creative bohemian vanguard, birthing band after band, from the B-52’s, R.E.M. all the way from my favorite Guadalcanal Diary. That city became the Liverpool of the south. I loved this book, not only because it allowed me to relive so many of the sounds I grew up on, but because the book examines the tension between the traditional south and the boundary-breaking, identity switching, creativity of the University’s avant-garde art school and that art school’s connection to the New York art scene. All of which changed the way America looked at its own regionalism and history. If you lived this period. You will know what I mean. By this book. And Go Dawgs.”
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[close] "A book which is akin to a French version of the magnificently haunting “Ohio” by Stephen Markley. I cannot recommend this enough."
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