Rock & roll and nationalism : a multinational perspective / edited by Mark Yoffe and Adrea Collins.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Yoffe, Mark, 1958-

Collins, Andrea

J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rock music--Political aspects.

Rock music.

Nationalism.

Patriotism.

Rock music--History and criticism.

Popular music--Political aspects.

Popular music.

Physical Description:

xv, 175 pages ; 21 cm

Other Title:

Rock and roll and nationalism

Place of Publication:

Newcastle-upon-Tyne, United Kingdom : Cambridge Scholars Press, 2005.

Summary:

"In the mid-twentieth century, pop music joined classical and folk as an important site of the formation and renewal of nationalism. Rock 'n' Roll and Nationalism: A Multinational Perspective, deals -- in essays on Croatia, Bosnia, England, Finland, Germany, Hungary, Russia, Slovenia, and the United States -- with the fascinating interplay between national and nationalistic identities and emotions and the rock music idiom. This scholarly enquiry brings together the talents of observers of popular music, including academic and independent scholars, and rock performers and journalists. Though the authors use many methodologies to get at their subjects, they all include thick description of the cultural systems around which rock in the eight different countries is structured. The author's insights into the detail and nuance of their topics will lead readers to new understanding of the subject of rock and roll and nationalism, and also provide them with a fruitful jumping off point for thoughtful further research. Most of the papers included in this volume were presented at two extraordinary international conferences, Popular Music and National Culture, held in Ljubljana, Slovenia, in November 2000 and Crossroads in Cultural Studies, held in Tampere, Finland, in June-July 2002"--Publishers web site.

Contents:

Notes on transliteration

Foreword / Dave Laing

Introduction / Mark Yoffe

Ch. 1. Some people in this town don't want to die like a hero: multiculturalism and the alternative music scene in Sarajevo, 1992-1996 / Nikolai Jeffs

Ch. 2. The decline and fall of Rock 'n Roll: main characteristics and trends of Coratioan popular music in the second half of the nineteen-nineties / Branko Kostelnik

Ch. 3. English Rock 'n Roll- an expression of non-belligerent Nationalism / Kenneth Roseman

Ch. 4. East of Rock: the development of Finnish National Rock / Tarja Rautiainen

Ch. 5. Retro-Nationalism? Rock music in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR) / Patricia Simpson

Ch. 6. Hungary's Cold War Rock 'n Roll spring: an interview with Andras Simonyi, Hungarian ambasador to the U.S. / Andrea Collins, Mark Yoffe

Ch. 7. Conceptual carnival: Natioanl elements in Russian nationalistic Rock music / Mark Yoffe

Ch. 8. On the realtationship of global and local music production: Mario Marzidovšek and his independent label Marzidovshekminimalaboratorium / Rajko Mursic

Ch. 9. National Zapprobat: reinterpreting Frank Zappa through a patriotic lens / Aaron Mulvaney

Bibliography

Discography

Endnotes.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references: (pages 146-168).

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the J. Fithian Tatem Memorial Fund.

ISBN:

1904303560

OCLC:

65211370