| Rocking the State: Rock Music and Politics in Eastern Europe and Russia Contributor(s): Ramet, Sabrina P. (Author) |
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ISBN: 0367286181 ISBN-13: 9780367286187 Publisher: Routledge OUR PRICE: $171.00 Product Type: Hardcover - Other Formats Published: October 2019 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Music | Genres & Styles - Rock - Political Science |
| Dewey: 781.660 |
| Lexile Measure: 1410 |
| Physical Information: (1.69 lbs) 328 pages |
| Themes: - Cultural Region - Eastern Europe |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Most readers of this book will have had at most a fleeting acquaintancewith the music of some of the groups described in this book. Groupssuch as Laibach (from Slovenia), Borghesia (Slovenia), Pankow (theGDR), and Gorky Park (USSR) have concentrated on the Western marketand have acquired followings in the United States and Western Europe.Other artists and groups, such as Boris Grebenshikov and Aquarium(USSR), Sergei Kuryokhin (USSR), Goran Bregovic and White Button(Yugoslavia), and Plastic People of the Universe (Czechoslovakia), havealso seen some Western exposure. But for the most part, the rock musicof that part of the world is terra incognita to Westerners. So too is thestory of their uneasy coexistence with communist authorities from thetime that rock first ppeared until the collapse of communism in 1989.This book aims to fill that vacuum. |