The Bohemian South

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. <i>The Bohemian South</i> provides an important perspective in the New South as an epicenter for progress innovation and experimentation.<br/><br/>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.