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Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc : Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe by William Jay Risch; Jonathyne Briggs; Kate Gerrard; Sndor Horvth; Tom Junes Centre for Advanced Study Sofia; Gregory Kveberg; Polly McMichael; David Tompkins; Gleb Tsipursky; Dean Vuletic; Christopher J. Ward; Sergei I. Zhuk is a book available to read on EtoBox.

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Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the rise of youth as consumers of popular culture and the globalization of popular music in Russia and Eastern Europe. This collection of essays challenges assumptions that Communist leaders and Western-influenced youth cultures were inimically hostile to one another. While initially banning Western cultural trends like jazz and rock-and-roll, Communist leaders accommodated elements of rock and pop music to develop their own socialist popular music. They promoted organized forms of leisure to turn young people away from excesses of style perceived to be Western. Popular song and officially sponsored rock and pop bands formed a socialist beat that young people listened and danced to. Young people attracted to the music and subcultures of the capitalist West still shared the values and behaviors of their peers in Communist youth organizations. Despite problems providing youth with consumer goods, leaders of Soviet bloc states fostered a socialist alternative to the modernity the capitalist West promised. Underground rock musicians thus shared assumptions about culture that Communist leaders had instilled. Still, competing with influences fro

Author

William Jay Risch; Jonathyne Briggs; Kate Gerrard; Sndor Horvth; Tom Junes Centre for Advanced Study Sofia; Gregory Kveberg; Polly McMichael; David Tompkins; Gleb Tsipursky; Dean Vuletic; Christopher J. Ward; Sergei I. Zhuk

Publisher

Lexington Books/Fortress Academic

Published

2015

Language

EN

ISBN

9780739178232

Subjects

Music, History, Sociology