The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1469631660 ISBN 13: 9781469631660

Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press, 2017

Synopsis

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. 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.

About this title

About the Author:

Shawn Chandler Bingham is assistant dean of academic affairs of the Honors College and assistant professor of sociology at the University of South Florida. He is author of Thoreau and the Sociological Imagination and co-author of Seriously Funny: Disability and the Paradoxical Power of Humor.

Lindsey A. Freeman is a sociologist who teaches, writes, and thinks about cities, memory, art, and sometimes James Agee. She is author of Longing for the Bomb: Oak Ridge and Atomic Nostalgia and assistant professor of sociology at Simon Fraser University.

Review:

Timely, engaging, and necessarily eclectic. . . . Marks new trails in the study of 'bohemian groves in Southern soils' that will point scholars to new problems in the region's quirky cultural history.--Journal of Social History
Inspire[s] fruitful discussions on broadening our understanding of the South's role in contemporary America and the need to resist seeing southern life as a monolith of increasingly extreme political conservatism and racial intolerance.--The Journal of Southern History

About this edition

• Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1469631660
• ISBN 13: 9781469631660
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 360
• Editor: Bingham Shawn Chandler, Freeman Lindsey A.