Interviews Conducted by Author
Dodd, Thomas, May 16, 2022, via Telephone
Gordon, Jay, January 18, 2023, via Instagram Messenger
Kennerty, Mike, August 9, 2022, via Instagram Messenger
Mazurkiewicz, Paul, April 23, 2022, via Telephone
O’Shea, Jack, August 24, 2022, via Telephone
Reeves, Mike, March 31, 2022, via Telephone
Sizemore, Erik, May 20, 2022, via Telephone
Wheeler, Nick, July 25, 2022, and January 9, 2023, via Instagram Messenger
Personal Correspondence
Christian, Stephen, August 9, 2022, via Email
Day, Patricia, April 15, 2022, via Email
Diehm, Jeff, August 28, 2022, via Email
Dupre III, Walter, May 11, 2022, via Email
Ferro, Andrea, January 9, 2023, via Email
Gorritz, Peter, J., August 28, 2022, via Email
Joyce, Rick, August 28, 2022, via Email
McKnight, Porter, August 3, 2022, via Email
My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, April 26, 2022, via Email
Pagan, Nick, May 27, 2022, via Email
Schaub, Buddy, April 15, 2022, via Email
Victoria, Edith, July 26, 2022, via Email
Major Works, Published and Unpublished
Allen, Jr., Ivan. Mayor: Notes on the Sixties. New York: Simon & Schuster, 1971.
Azerrad, Michael. Our Band Could Be Your Life: Scenes from the American Indie Underground 1981-1991. Boston: Back Bay Books, 2002.
Blush, Steven. American Hardcore: A Tribal History. Port Townsend, WA: Feral House, 2010.
Bradley, Regina. Chronicling Stankonia: The Rise of the Hip Hop South. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
eds. Brown, A; Spracklen K; Khan-Harris, K; Scott, N. Global Metal Music and Culture: Current Directions in Metal Studies. New York: Routledge, 2016.
Carnes, Anne. In Defense of Ska. Troy, NY: CLASH Books, 2021.
Fathalla, Judith May. Emo: How Fans Defined a Subculture. Iowa: University of Iowa Press, 2020.
Fischer, Anne Gray. The Streets Belong to Us: Sex, Race, and Police Power from Segregation to Gentrification. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2022.
Goodlad, Lauren. Goth: Undead Subculture. Durham: Duke University Press, 2007.
Grecco, Michael. Punk, Post Punk, New Wave: Onstage, Backstage, In Your Face, 1978-1991. New York: Abrams Books, 2020.
Greenwald, Andy. Nothing Feels Good: Punk Rock, Teenagers, and Emo. New York: St. Martin’s Griffin, 2003.
Hale, Grace Elizabeth. Cool Town: How Athens, Georgia, Launched Alternative Music and Changed American Culture. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2021.
Hale, Timothy Cole, “Slouching Towards Atlanta: The Influence of Churches on Atlanta’s Hippie Community.” Thesis, Georgia State University, 2020.
Harriman, Andy. Some Wear Leather, Some Wear Lace: The Worldwide Compendium of Postpunk and Goth in the 1980s. Bristol: Intellect Ltd, 2014.
Hartle, Jr., Robert. The Highs and Lows of Little Five: A History of Little Five Points. Cheltenham, United Kingdom: The History Press, 2010
Heylin, Clinton. From the Velvets to the Voidoids: The Birth of American Punk Rock. Chicago: Chicago Review Press, 2005.
Hobson, Maurice J. The Legend of the Black Mecca: Politics and Class in the Making of Modern Atlanta. Chapel Hill, North Carolina: The University of North Carolina Press, 2019.
Huff, Christopher Allen. “A New Way of Living Together: A History of Atlanta’s Hip Community, 1965-1973.” PhD. Dissertation, University of Georgia, 2012.
Hurchalla, George. Going Underground: American Punk 1979–1989. Oakland: PM Press, 2016.
Kemp, Mark. Dixie Lullaby: A Story of Music, Race, and New Beginnings in a New South. Athens, GA: University of Georgia Press, 2006.
Kenney, Shawna. Live at the Safari Club: A History of harDCcore Punk in the Nation’s Capital 1988-1998. Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, 2017.
Kilpatrick, Nancy. The goth Bible: A Compendium for the Darkly Inclined. New York: St. Martin’s Press, 2004.
Klypchak, Bradley, “Performed Identities: Heavy Metal Musicians Between 1984 and 1991” (2007). American Culture Studies Ph.D. Dissertations. 56. https://scholarworks.bgsu.edu/acs_diss/56
Kristal, Hilly. CBGB & OMFUG: Thirty Years from the Home of Underground Rock. New York: Abrams Books, 2005.
Kruse, Kevin. White Flight: Atlanta and the Making of Modern Conservatism. Princeton: Princeton University Press, 2007.
Lucas, Olivia. Loudness, Rhythm and Environment: Analytical Issues in Extreme Metal Music” (2016) Doctoral dissertation, Harvard University, Graduate School of Arts & Sciences.
Madden, Amy Fleisher. Negatives: A Photographic Archive of Emo (1996-2006). San Francisco: Chronicle Books. 2023.
Markarian, Taylor. From the Basement: A History of Emo Music and How It Changed Society. Miami: Mango Publishing, 2019.
McNair, Charles. Play It Again, Sam: The Notable Life of Sam Massell, Atlanta’s First Minority
Mayor. Macon, GA: Mercer University Press, 2017.
McNeil, Legs. Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk. New York: Grove Press, 2016.
McPheeters, Sam. Mutations: The Many Strange Faces of Hardcore Punk. Los Angeles: Rare Bird Books, 2020.
Ozzi, Dan. Sellout: The Major-Label Feeding Frenzy That Swept Punk, Emo, and Hardcore (1994–2007). New York: Dey Street Books, 2021.
Padgett, Martin. A Night at the Sweet Gum Head: Drag, Drugs, Disco, and Atlanta’s Gay Revolution. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2021.
Payne, Chris. Where Are Your Boys Tonight?: The Oral History of Emo’s Mainstream Explosion 1999-2008. New York: Dey Street Books, 2023.
Reynolds, Simon. Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984. London: Penguin Books, 2006.
Ruland, Jim. Corporate Rock Sucks: The Rise and Fall of SST Records. Paris: Hachette Books, 2022.
Schuerman, Matthew L. Newcomers: Gentrification and Its Discontents. Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, 2019.
Spracklen, Karl. The Evolution of Goth Culture: The Origins and Deeds of the New Goths. Bingley, UK: Emerald Publishing, 2018.
Taylor, Leila. Darkly: Black History and America’s Gothic Soul. London: Repeater, 2019.
Van Elferen, Isabella. Goth Music: From Sound to Subculture. Oxfordshire, UK: Routledge, 2020.
Winwood, Ian. Smash!: Green Day, The Offspring, Bad Religion, NOFX, and the ’90s Punk Explosion. Boston: Da Capo Press, 2018.
Yarm, Mike. Everybody Loves Our Town: An Oral History of Grunge. New York: Three Rivers Press, 2011.
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