Nostalgia Trap - Episode 329: Cool Town w/ Grace Elizabeth Hale
Nostalgia Trap · David Parsons
June 13, 20221h 8mExplicit
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Show Notes
Grace Elizabeth Hale is a professor of history and American Studies at the University of Virginia whose work focuses on race, class, and culture in the 20th century, particularly in the American South. Her latest book, Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture tells the story of how a small college town in Georgia became a center of indie and punk culture in the 1970s and 1980s, producing major bands like the B-52s and R.E.M. while maintaining a queer D.I.Y cultural scene that's become a significant legend in the annals of American rock. What makes Athens so special? And can that magic be recreated in other places?
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