The Bohemian South
Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk
Shawn Chandler Bingham
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Imprint: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: 05/2017
Pages: 360
Subject: Social Science, History
| University of North Carolina
Print ISBN: 9780000000000
eBook ISBN: 9781469631691
DESCRIPTION
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.
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