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Book Title: Cool Town : How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture
Number of Pages: 384 Pages
Language: English
Publisher: University of North Carolina Press
Publication Year: 2021
Topic: Ethnomusicology, Regional Studies, Popular Culture
Item Height: 1 in
Illustrator: Yes
Genre: Music, Social Science
Item Weight: 18.3 Oz
Item Length: 9.2 in
Author: Grace Elizabeth Hale
Book Series: A Ferris and Ferris Book Ser.
Item Width: 6.1 in
Format: Trade Paperback
