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  title info:
    title: Where misfits fit
    sub title: counterculture and influence in the Ozarks
  name:
    name part: Kersen, Thomas Michael
    role:
      role term: creator
    role:
      role term: author.
  type of resource: text
  genre: bibliography
  origin info:
    place:
      place term: msu
    date issued: 2021
    copyright date: 2021
    issuance: monographic
  language:
    language term: eng
  physical description:
    form: print
    extent: x, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
  abstract: In Where Misfits Fit: Counterculture and Influence in the Ozarks, Thomas Michael Kersen explores the people who made a home in the Ozarks and the ways they contributed to American popular culture. Drawing on a wide variety of sources, Kersen argues the area attracts and even nurtures people and groups on the margins of the mainstream. These include UFO enthusiasts, cults, musical troupes and back-to-the-land groups. Kersen examines how the Ozarks became a haven for creative, innovative, even nutty people to express themselves, a place where community could be reimagined in a variety of ways. It is in these communities that communitas, or a deep social connection, emerges. Each of the nine chapters focuses on a facet of the Ozarks, and Kersen often compares two or more cases to generate new insights and questions. Chapters examine real and imagined identity and highlight how the area has contributed to popular culture through analysis of the Eureka Springs energy vortex, fictional characters like Li'l Abner, cultic activity, environmentally minded communes and the development of rockabilly music and near-communal rock bands such as Black Oak Arkansas.
  table of contents: Chapter 1. The Ozarks -- Chapter 2. Exploring Regional Identity in Arkansas: The Salience of the Term "Ozark" -- Chapter 3. Li'l Abner the Trickster: Mythical Identity in the Ozarks -- Chapter 4. Eureka Springs, Where Misfits Fit -- Chapter 5. Close Encounters of the Ozark Kind -- Chapter 6. The Cults of Searcy County, Arkansas -- Chapter 7. The Group -- Chapter 8. When Electric Music Came to the Ozarks -- Chapter 9. The Hot Mulch Band and the Missouri Back-to-the-Land Experience -- Chapter 10. Back-to-Landers in the Arkansas Ozarks -- Chapter 11. Conclusions.
  note: Thomas Michael Kersen.
  note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
  subject:
    geographic code: n-us-ar
    geographic code: n-us---
  subject:
    topic: Counterculture
    geographic: Ozark Mountains
    topic: History
  subject:
    topic: Popular culture
    geographic: United States
    topic: History
  subject:
    geographic: Ozark Mountains
    topic: Intellectual life
  subject:
    geographic: Ozark Mountains
    topic: History
  classification: F417.O9 K47 2021
  classification: 306.1097671
  identifier: 9781496835420
  identifier: 1496835425
  identifier: 9781496835437
  identifier: 1496835433
  identifier: 9781496835451
  identifier: 149683545X
  identifier: 9781496835444
  identifier: 1496835441
  identifier: 9781496835468
  identifier: 1496835468
  identifier: 9781496835475
  identifier: 1496835476
  record info:
    record content source: DLC
    record creation date: 210511
    record change date: 20220105170213.0
    record identifier: in00004359203