Grace Elizabeth Hale experienced the Athens music scene in the 1980s as a student, small-business owner, and band member. In Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture, she serves up the inside story of an unexpected mecca of music, experimental art, DIY spirit, and progressive politics that incubated musical acts the B-52’s, R.E.M., and Matthew Sweet. Joining Hale is journalist and filmmaker Bill Teck, who recently directed the documentary One Day Since Yesterday: Peter Bogdanovich & The Lost American Film.
