Rock in the reservation : songs from Leningrad Rock Club 1981-86
Forfatter
Steinholt, Yngvar BordewichSammendrag
On the seventh of March 1981 a rock club opened in Leningrad. This happened five years before Soviet cultural authorities were prepared to acknowledge that rock music existed in the USSR. According to official ideology, rock was a symptom of the moral and cultural decay of western capitalist societies, and therefore by definition unsuitable for Soviet audiences. Half a decade later, rock music broke out of its Leningrad reservation and onto public stages to become the soundtrack of perestroika. Rock tapes were distributed and recopied by the millions. The phenomenon received massive attention and generated fierce debates on home soil. Soon, western journalists and academics began arriving to study this curious phenomenon. By 1990, members of the rock community, regional cultural
authorities, and the KGB were all claiming the honour of being the initiators of the Rock Club.
Beskrivelse
This book is a revised and corrected version of Steinholts doctoral thesis from 2004.
Forlag
Mass Media Music Scholars' PressMetadata
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