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Title Youth and rock in the Soviet bloc : youth cultures, music, and the state in Russia and Eastern Europe / edited by William Jay Risch
Published Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2015]

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Description 1 online resource (vi, 310 pages)
Contents Swinging between East and West: Yugoslav Communism and the Dilemmas of Popular Music / Dean Vuletic -- Against "Pop-Song" Poison from the West: Early Cold War Attempts to Develop a Socialist Popular Music in Poland and the GDR / David G. Tompkins -- Coercion and Consumption: The Khrushchev Leadership's Ruling Style in the Campaign against "Westernized" Youth, 1954-1964 / Gleb Tsipursky -- Only Rock 'n' Roll?: Rock Music, Hippies, and Urban Identities in Lviv and Wroc±aw, 1965-1980 / William Jay Risch -- The Making of the Gang: Consumers of the Socialist Beat in Hungary / Sâandor Horvâath -- Dâetente and Western Cultural Products in Soviet Ukraine during the 1970s / Sergei I. Zhuk -- Punk and the State of Youth in the GDR / Kate Gerrard -- "A Room-Sized Ocean": Apartments in the Practice and Mythology of Leningrad's Rock Music / Polly McMichael -- Shostakovich versus Boney M.: Culture, Status, and History in the Debate over Soviet Diskoteki / Gregory Kveberg -- Facing the Music: How the Foundations of Socialism Were Rocked in Communist Poland / Tom Junes -- Rockin' Down the Mainline: Rock Music during the Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM), 1974-1984 / Christopher J. Ward -- East of (Teenaged) Eden, or, Is Eastern Youth Culture So Different from the West? / $r Jonathyne Briggs
Summary Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the impact of Western popular culture on young people in Russia and Eastern Europe during the Cold War
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 285-292) and index
Notes English
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Subject 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
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Rock.
POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
Music and state
Popular music -- Political aspects
Popular music -- Social aspects
Youth
Eastern Europe
Soviet Union
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
Author Risch, William Jay
LC no. 2021675755
ISBN 9780739178232
0739178237
1498508758
9781498508759