The Bohemian South: Creating Countercultures, from Poe to Punk

357 Pages·2017·8.192 MB·English

by  Shawn Chandler Bingham, Lindsey A. Freeman

The Bohemian South
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Edited by
Shawn Chandler Bingham
and Lindsey A. Freeman
The Bohemian South
Creating Countercultures,
from Poe to Punk
The University of North Carolina Press C hapel Hill
This book was published with the assistance of
the Fred W. Morrison Fund of the University of North Carolina Press.
© 2017 The University of North Carolina Press
All rights reserved
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The University of North Carolina Press has been a member of the
Green Press Initiative since 2003.
Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data
Names: Bingham, Shawn Chandler, 1976– editor. | Freeman, Lindsey A., editor.
Title: The bohemian South : creating countercultures, from Poe to punk / edited by Shawn
Chandler Bingham and Lindsey A. Freeman.
Description: Chapel Hill : University of North Carolina Press, [2017] |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: lccn 2016046165| isbn 9781469631660 (cloth : alk. paper) |
isbn 9781469631677 (pbk : alk. paper) | isbn 9781469631684 (ebook)
Subjects: lcsh: Southern States— Civilization. | Bohemianism— Southern States. |
Counterculture— Southern States.
Classification: lcc F209 .B64 2017 | ddc 975— dc23 LC rec ord
available at https:/ / l ccn. l oc. g ov/ 2 016046165
Cover: Likeness of Black Mountain College’s seal is used with the permission of the Black
Mountain College Museum and Arts Center.
To the jazz prince of Savannah, Dr. Boo Hornstein,
and to my bohemian queens, Angela, Eva Grace and Isla Maeve.
— Shawn
To the ghost of James Agee.
— Lindsey
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Contents
Acknowl edgments xi
Bohemian Groves in Southern Soil 1
Shawn Chandler Bingham
The Southern Origins of Bohemian New York: Edward Howland,
Ada Clare, and Edgar Allan Poe 20
Edward Whitley
The Double Dealers in Bohemian New Orleans 36
Joanna Levin
A Community Far Afield: Black Mountain College
and the Southern Estrangement of the Avant- Garde 54
Jon Horne Car ter
James Agee and the Southern Superreal 73
Lindsey A. Freeman
Countercultural Structures of Con temporary Global South Poetry 89
Daniel Cross Turner
Down Home and Out: Southern Lesbian Writers
and the Sex Life of Food 1 07
Jaime Cantrell
Trash Food 128
Chris Offutt
My Yankee Traitor Heart 135
Allen C. Shelton
Southern Cinematic Slumming: The Rough South Turn
in Post- South Film 148
Zackary Vernon
Southern Expressions of the Blues Revival 165
Scott Barretta
Acting Out: The Athens, Georgia, Music Scene
and the Emergence of a Bohemian Diaspora 1 81
Grace Elizabeth Hale
Re imagined Old- Time Music Cultures in the Trainhopping
Punk Rock South 205
Daniel S. Margolies
Space, Time, and Race in Dirty South Bohemia 224
Zandria F. Robinson
We Think a Lot: From Square to Hip in North Carolina’s
Research Triangle 242
Alex Sayf Cummings
Bohemian Groves, Grooves, Gardens, and Guns: The Hybrid Worlds
of Bohemian and Bourgeoisie Southern Magazines 264
Shawn Chandler Bingham
Liminality and the Search for the New Austin Bohemianism 288
Joshua Long
Afterword 305
Lindsey A. Freeman
Contributors 311
Index 315
Figures
Studies Building, Camp Rockmount 62
Deep in the rhododendrons 69
Michael Ismerio 211
Andrew Norcross 215
Hannah Johnson 219
A sign in Durham, North Carolina 243