Athens Music Project Oral History Collection, 2014-2020
Interviews from 2014-2020 documenting the development of Athens as a breeding ground for multiple musical communities including the Southern independent rock scene.
More About This Collection
Creator
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
University of Georgia. Libraries
Date of Original
2014/2020
Subject
Georgia--Clarke County
Music
Athens (Ga.)--History
Georgia--Athens
Music--Georgia--Athens
Clarke County (Ga.)
Location
United States, Georgia, Clarke County, Athens, 33.96095, -83.37794
Medium
oral histories (literary works)
moving images
Type
MovingImage, Sound
Description
Interviews in this collection document the development of Athens as a breeding ground for multiple musical communities--the most prominent of them being the Southern independent rock scene. Other areas to be documented include a variety of African-American musical traditions, hip-hop, jazz, bluegrass, folk music traditions, Latin music, new music and conceptual sound art, classical music, and musical theater, and AthFest.
Related collections in this repository: Athens Oral History Project.
The Athens Music Project Oral History Collection is part of the Athens Music Project (AMP), a Willson Center for Humanities and Arts research cluster co-directed by Jean Kidula and Susan Thomas. For more detailed biographical information about each interviewee, please consult individual finding aids.
Language
eng
Contributing Institution
Richard B. Russell Library for Political Research and Studies
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