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One part research, one part lived experience, and all Southern legend at it's finest, Hale dutifully recreates the Athens of her youth and the college town that changed the game - sorry, Chapel Hill.
(PRINCETON, NJ) -- Princeton University’s Lewis Center for the Arts presents a platform performance of Athens, Georgia, a new rock musical based on the ancient Greek play The Frogs by Aristophanes, with music composed by Tony Award-winner Stew and book and lyrics by Pulitzer Prize-winner Paul Muldoon. The performance will be on Wednesday, April 20 at 4:30pm in the Hearst Dance Theater on the Princeton campus. It will feature Princeton students from the spring Atelier course of the same name, as well as guest appearances by Tyquan Malik White as Little Richard and Roman Banks as Chuck Be...
ATLANTA – The Georgia Historical Society announced recently that Grace Elizabeth Hale has been awarded the 2021 Malcolm Bell Jr. and Muriel Barrow Bell Award for the best book on
In order to gain a better understanding of the origins of hip-hop culture in Athens, you have to know someone who was there. Or know someone who knows someone who was there. The lives these individuals lived, and the stories they have to tell, aren't going to be easy to find on Google or even at the local library. Willie Wester is one of those who was there, and his personal account of how hip-hop made its way into his life, and ultimately saved it, is the stuff of great autobiographies and feature films. Born in Hempstead, N.C., in 1969, Wester's family moved to Gainesville, Ga., when he was...
In high school, most World History classes teach that Athens, Greece was the epicenter of culture back in the day when there was a lot of sculpture chiseling going on and Harry Hamlin was trying to kill Medusa. But in Music History class, its unlikely namesake of Athens, Georgia held similar cred for its own thriving scene. From the late ‘70s to the early ‘90s, Athens was a breeding ground where bands like R.E.M., the B-52’s, Pylon, Love Tractor, Oh-OK, Vic Chesnutt, the Squalls, the Bar-B-Q Killers, Guadalcanal Diary, Widespread Panic, and the Drive-By Truckers got their start before ...