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counterculture and influence in the Ozarks
x, 255 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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.
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.
Includes bibliographical references and index.