Lexington Books
Pages: 344
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Trim: 6¼ x 9½
978-0-7391-6693-2 • Hardback • December 2014 • $155.00 • (£119.00)
978-1-4985-0875-9 • Paperback • January 2017 • $64.99 • (£50.00)
978-0-7391-7823-2 • eBook • December 2014 • $61.50 • (£47.00)
William Jay Risch is associate professor of history at Georgia College.
Table of Contents
Introduction 1
Chapter One:
Dean Vuletic, “Swinging between East and West: Yugoslav Communism and the Dilemmas of Popular Music” 37
Chapter Two:
David G. Tompkins, “Against ‘Pop-Song Poison’ from the West: Early Cold War Attempts to Develop a Socialist Popular Music in Poland and the GDR” 64
Chapter Three:
Gleb Tsipursky, “Coercion and Consumption: The Khrushchev Leadership’s Ruling Style in the Campaign against ‘Westernized’ Youth, 1954-64” 82
Chapter Four:
William Jay Risch, “Only Rock-n-Roll? Rock Music, Hippies, and Urban Identities in Lviv and Wroclaw, 1965-1980” 128
Chapter Five:
Sándor Horváth, “The Making of the Gang: Consumers of the Socialist Beat in Hungary” 161
Chapter Six:
Sergei I. Zhuk, “Détente and Western Cultural Products in Soviet Ukraine during the 1970s” 184
Chapter Seven:
Kate Gerrard, “Punk and the State of Youth in the GDR” 243
Chapter Eight:
Polly McMichael, “‘A Room-Sized Ocean’: Apartments in the Practice and Mythology of Leningrad’s Rock Music” 289
Chapter Nine:
Gregory Kveberg, “Shostakovich versus Boney M.: Culture, Status, and History in the Debate over Soviet Diskoteki” 331
Chapter Ten:
Tom Junes, “Facing the Music: How the Foundations of Socialism Were Rocked in Communist Poland” 357
Chapter Eleven:
Christopher J. Ward, “Rockin’ Down the Mainline: Rock Music during the Construction of the Baikal-Amur Mainline Railway (BAM), 1974-1984” 402
Chapter Twelve:
Jonathyne Briggs, “East of (Teenaged) Eden, or Is Eastern Youth Culture So Different from the West?” 427
List of Contributors 455
Select Bibliography 460
Index 000
This is the first serious attempt to bring scholarly work on music and youth (sub)cultures in the Eastern Bloc together in a comparative fashion. It provides an excellent entry to the topic for non-experts. The volume is an interesting and innovative contribution to an emerging and developing debate.
— Mark Fenemore, Manchester Metropolitan University
This is a well-written, engaging and exceedingly informative collection of articles telling us how late socialist states related to rock music and the youth, who listened to it. Even better, many articles also tell us how late socialist youth related to the Western or Western-inspired music they loved and to the political regimes, which felt so ambivalent about it. The result is a mosaic of solidly researched pieces that manages to side-step easy binaries of opposition and conformity and highlight the many different layers of “in-between”—between private and public, between East and West, between freedom and repression—that characterized how youth cultural agents and the socialist states interacted with each other.
— Juliane Fürst, University of Bristol
Risch and his collaborators demonstrate . . . [that] this music and its complex subcultures mattered deeply across Eastern Europe. They are giving it the renewed attention it deserves.
— The Russian Review