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Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia Anniversary Edition
Contributor(s): Brown, Rodger Lyle (Author)
ISBN: 0820350400     ISBN-13: 9780820350400
Publisher: University of Georgia Press
OUR PRICE:   $23.36  
Product Type: Paperback
Published: September 2016
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BISAC Categories:
- Biography & Autobiography | Music
- Music | Genres & Styles - Rock
- Music | History & Criticism - General
Dewey: B
LCCN: 2016014381
Series: Music of the American South
Physical Information: 0.67" H x 5.54" W x 8.57" (0.75 lbs) 264 pages
Themes:
- Locality - Athens, Georgia
- Geographic Orientation - Georgia
- Cultural Region - Southeast U.S.
- Cultural Region - South
 
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Publisher Description:

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.


Contributor Bio(s): Brown, Rodger Lyle: - 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.