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In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka “the world's greatest bar band." Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. He meets Polish artists nostalgic for their revolutionary days, Mongolian neo-Nazis in full SS regalia, and a gay expat in Ulaanbataar who needs an armed escort between his home and his job. The Russian punk scene is thrust onto the international stage with the furor surrounding the arrest of the group Pussy Riot, and Ukrainians find themselves in the midst of a revolution and then a full-blown war. While engaging with the works of literary predecessors from Rebecca West to Chekhov and the nineteenth-century French aristocrat the Marquis de Custine, Nicolay explores the past and future of punk rock culture in the post-Communist world in the kind of book a punk rock Paul...

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Author

Franz Nicolay

Publisher

The New Press

Published

2016

Language

EN

ISBN

9781620971802

Category

nonfiction

Subjects

History, Travel, Asia Travel

Rating

3.9 / 5 (130 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14