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History at the university of virginia where she specializes in 20th century cultural history, the history of the american south, and history of popular music. She is the author of three books, all critically acclaimed, her latest is entitled cool town, how athens georgia lunch the alternative scene and changed culture, published by the university of North Carolina. She is the author of the nation outsiders, how the white middle class with film love with rebelling. Published by Oxford University press and her first book, making whiteness, segregation in the south published by pantheon. Welcome to the program, thank you for joining us. Its great to be here. Thanks for having me. Absolutely. This is a big topic, we talked about this before. It is a huge and broad topic, we can drill down in a lot of places, and ask you question it might seem really broad but it will allow you to take it wherever you want to go. And we can drill down a bit. Youve written extensively about post war American
Popular music. The author of three books all critically acclaimed. Her latest cool town how a athens, georgia lost the theme and changed American Culture published by the university of North Carolina press this year 2020 she is also the author of a nation of outsiders how the white middle class fell in love with rebelion which well hear ore about. Culture published by the university of North Carolina. She is the author of the nation outsiders, how the white middle class with film love with rebelling. Published by Oxford University press and her first book, making whiteness, segregation in the south published by pantheon. Welcome to the program, thank you for joining us. Its great to be here. Thanks for having me. Absolutely, this is a big topic, we talked about this before and is a huge and broad topic, we can drill down in a lot of places, and ask you question it might seem really broad but it will allow you to take it wherever you want to go. And we can drill down a bit. Youve writte
Conversations on the cold war, 75 years after began. Good afternoon welcome to this Virtual Program on the cold war and Popular Culture. I am stan deaton with the Georgia Historical Society and we are pleased to partner with the uva club of savannah. This conversation, the last of three with esteemed faculty is part of the historical societies festival, its focused on the 75th anniversary of the beginning of the cold war. Our guest today is Grace Elizabeth hale, she is the commonwealth professor of american studies and American History at the university of virginia where she specializes in 20th century cultural history, the history of the south and popular music. She is the author of three books, all critically acclaimed, her latest is entitled cool town, how athens georgia lunch the alternative scene and changed culture published by the university of North Carolina. She is the author of the nation outsiders, how the white middle class with film love with rebelling. Published by Oxford
People have this idea of pumping as the sex pistols and as this British Working class phenomenon. And thats absolutely true. But in america, punk is much more has much less of a connection to a kind of vision of a sort of romanticization of a working life. It is much more about artistic freedom and artistic Self Determination and what we might think of more of as an avantgarde rebellion than a kind of class rebellion. Key figures are people like patty smith. The velvet underground, the ramons. These groups. And they create this vision of making your own music, outside the realm of the industry. Outside of the big companies. Outside you know, outside of television, for sure. You know, heaven forbid, we are not going to be on television. So that really flourishes in the 70s in new york. And by the late 70s this is what my most recent book is about, athens being a key, key site for this transformation. Young people decide in athens and then that becomes a model for other places. It is not