Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia (Music of the American South Ser.)

Brown, Rodger Lyle

ISBN 10: 0820350400 / ISBN 13: 9780820350400

Published by University of Georgia Press, 2016

About this Item

Trade paperback edition, published by University of Georgia Press, 2016. First published in 1999, this is a first printing copy of the updated 25th Anniversary edition. Classic music journalism, an in-depth look at the Athens, Georgia music scene of the early 1980s. Focusing on REM, The B-52's, Pylon. This updated edition includes new photos, a foreward by Charles Aaron, and an afterword by David Barbe. 214 pages, 5-3/4" X 8-1/2". No creases to the cover or spine. No former ownership marks, no writing on the text pages. Edges of the text block are clean. Binding is tight and square. The attached photos are of the copy we have in our inventory.

Seller Inventory # 23-08581

Bibliographic Details

• Title: Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia (Music of the American South Ser.)
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication Date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820350400
• ISBN 13: 9780820350400
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: No Jacket
• Seller catalogs:
  • American South
  • Music
  • Social Commentary

About this title

Synopsis

Originally published in 1991, Rodger Lyle Brown’s Party Out of Bounds is a cult classic that offers an insider’s look at the underground rock music culture that sprang from a lazy Georgia college town. Brown uses half-remembered stories, local anecdotes, and legendary lore to chronicle the 1970s and 1980s and the spawning of Athens bands such as the B-52’s, Pylon, and R.E.M. Their creative momentum helped to usher in a new wave of music on a national and international level, putting Athens, Georgia, on the map.

Brown takes the reader on a heady, keg-beer-fueled romp from the South’s dirty back roads and all-night porch parties to the precipice of rock superstardom. This twenty-fifth-anniversary edition includes new and rarely seen photographs by locals on the scene; a foreword by Charles Aaron, former longtime editor and writer at SPIN magazine; and an afterword by producer/engineer and musician David Barbe, drawn from an essay originally published in the Oxford American’s 2015 music issue.

About the Author

RODGER LYLE BROWN lived in Athens from 1977 to 1987. He has worked as an editorial director for Playboy.com and Britannica.com, contributed to publications such as the New York Times and the Village Voice, and is the author of Ghost Dancing on the Cracker Circuit: The Culture of Festivals in the American South.