Rock around the bloc : a history of rock music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union / Timothy W. Ryback.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ryback, Timothy W.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock music--Communist countries--History and criticism.

Rock music.

Communist countries.

Physical Description:

xii, 272 pages, 20 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ;c25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Oxford University Press, 1990.

Summary:

Rock Around the Bloc presents an in-depth history of rock music in communist Europe from the mid-1950s to the present, touching on such highlights as the Elvis craze in the late 1950s, Beatlemania in the 1960s and 1970s, and punk and heavy metal music of the 1980s. The reader comes to realize that in some ways, life in the Soviet bloc was surprisingly similar to life in the West. But there are striking differences as well, most notably, the thirty-year war between rock fans and party officials.

Contents:

Introduction: The Sounds of Socialism 3

1 Onslaught of the Coca-Cola Barbarians, 1946-1953 7

2 Rock and Rollback, 1954-1960 19

3 Bards of Discontent, 1956-1965 35

4 Beatlemania: Leninism Versus Lennonism, 1960-1966 50

5 You Say You Want a Revolution, 1965-1969 66

6 The Crackdown, 1965-1970 85

7 The Soviet Rock Scene, 1965-1972 102

8 Rocking the Balkans, 1965-1975 115

9 Bands on the Run, 1972-1976 129

10 The Soviet Rock Scene, 1970-1979 149

11 Punk in Hungary, 1976-1986 167

12 Punk in Poland, 1980-1986 180

13 The Final Bastions Fall, 1980-1988 191

14 The Soviet Rock Scene, 1980-1988 211

Conclusion: Shattering the Iron Curtain 232.

Notes:

Includes index.

ISBN:

0195056337

OCLC:

19623657