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Record Nr.

UNINA9910808895703321

Titolo

Youth and rock in the Soviet bloc : youth cultures, music, and the state in Russia and Eastern Europe / / edited by William Jay Risch

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Lanham, Maryland : , : Lexington Books, , [2015]

©2015

ISBN

1-4985-0875-8

0-7391-7823-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (320 p.)

Disciplina

306.4/84260947

Soggetti

Popular music - Political aspects - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Popular music - Social aspects - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Popular music - Political aspects - Soviet Union

Popular music - Social aspects - Soviet Union

Music and state - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Music and state - Soviet Union

Youth - Europe, Eastern - History - 20th century

Youth - Soviet Union

Cold War - Music and the war

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Introduction; 1 Swinging between East and West; 2 Against "Pop-Song" Poison from the West; 3 Coercion and Consumption; 4 Only Rock 'n' Roll?; 5 The Making of the Gang; 6 Détente and Western Cultural Products in Soviet Ukraine during the 1970s; 7 Punk and the State of Youth in the GDR; 8 "A Room-Sized Ocean"; 9 Shostakovich versus Boney M.; 10 Facing the Music; 11 Rockin' Down the Mainline; 12 East of (Teenaged) Eden, or, Is Eastern Youth Culture So Different from the West?; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors

Sommario/riassunto

<span><span style=""font-style:italic;"">Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc </span><span>explores the impact of Western popular culture on young people in Russia and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.



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