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Party Out of Bounds
The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia
by Rodger Lyle Brown
This title was previously available on NetGalley and is now archived.
Pub Date
Sep 01 2016
| Archive Date
Aug 31 2016
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.
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...
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.
A Note From the Publisher
25th Anniversary Edition. Part of Music of the American South series. 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.
25th Anniversary Edition. Part of Music of the American South series. Rodger Lyle Brown lived in Athens from 1977 to 1987. He has worked as an editorial director for Playboy.com and Britannica.com...
A Note From the Publisher
25th Anniversary Edition. Part of Music of the American South series. 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.
Advance Praise
“Really captures the rhythm and feel of the Athens music scene. Rodger should know—he was there from the beginning.”
—Peter Buck of R.E.M.
“For fans of the bands, rock historians, and followers of the indie scene, this is a ‘Party’ worth attending.”
—Billboard
“His foot heavy on the accelerator, Mr. Brown speeds his readers through
the Georgia darkness from keg parties in rural love shacks to packed
warehouse dance marathons in town. . . . Without turning maudlin, Mr.
Brown captures both the joy of Athens’s youthful exuberance and the pain
of a generation’s loss of innocence to cynicism and AIDS.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
“Really captures the rhythm and feel of the Athens music scene. Rodger should know—he was there from the beginning.”
—Peter Buck of R.E.M.
“For fans of the bands, rock historians, and followers of...
Advance Praise
“Really captures the rhythm and feel of the Athens music scene. Rodger should know—he was there from the beginning.”
—Peter Buck of R.E.M.
“For fans of the bands, rock historians, and followers of the indie scene, this is a ‘Party’ worth attending.”
—Billboard
“His foot heavy on the accelerator, Mr. Brown speeds his readers through
the Georgia darkness from keg parties in rural love shacks to packed
warehouse dance marathons in town. . . . Without turning maudlin, Mr.
Brown captures both the joy of Athens’s youthful exuberance and the pain
of a generation’s loss of innocence to cynicism and AIDS.”
—Atlanta Journal-Constitution
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Additional Information
Available Editions
| EDITION |
Other Format |
| ISBN |
9780820350400 |
| PRICE |
$24.95 (USD)
|
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Featured Reviews
Reviewer 346698
"Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia" is a reissue of the original 1991 release, published right at the tail end of the first Athens, GA-as-music-mecca scene. What makes volume sing is that author Rodger Lyle Brown was there, and the book reads like an insider tale of one of those legendary scenes that stopped being a scene once you’d heard about it. From the B-52’s to Pylon to R.E.M., it’s all here, in all the hilarity and poignancy of a spent youth that feels like yours whether it really was or not.
Highly recommended.
5 Stars
Featured Reviews
Reviewer 346698
"Party Out of Bounds: The B-52's, R.E.M., and the Kids Who Rocked Athens, Georgia" is a reissue of the original 1991 release, published right at the tail end of the first Athens, GA-as-music-mecca scene. What makes volume sing is that author Rodger Lyle Brown was there, and the book reads like an insider tale of one of those legendary scenes that stopped being a scene once you’d heard about it. From the B-52’s to Pylon to R.E.M., it’s all here, in all the hilarity and poignancy of a spent youth that feels like yours whether it really was or not.
Highly recommended.
5 Stars
