Description: Further DetailsTitle: Youth and Rock in the Soviet BlocCondition: NewSubtitle: Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern EuropeAuthor: Christopher J. WardContributor: Kate Gerrard (Contributions by), Sandor Horvath (Contributions by), Tom Junes (Contributions by), Gleb Tsipursky (Contributions by), Jonathyne Briggs (Contributions by), William Jay Risch (Edited by), Gregory Kveberg (Contributions by), Polly McMichael (Contributions by), David Tompkins (Contributions by), Dean Vuletic (Contributions by), Christopher J. Ward (Contributions by), Sergei I. Zhuk (Contributions by)Format: PaperbackISBN-10: 1498508758EAN: 9781498508759ISBN: 9781498508759Publisher: Lexington BooksGenre: HistoryTopic: Society & CultureRelease Date: 01/18/2017Description: 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 from the capitalist West had its limits. State-sponsored rock festivals and rock bands encouraged a spirit of rebellion among young people. Official perceptions of what constituted culture limited options for accommodating rock and pop music and Western youth cultures. Youth countercultures that originated in the capitalist West, like hippies and punks, challenged the legitimacy of Communist youth organizations and their sponsors. Government media and police organs wound up creating oppositional identities among youth gangs. Failing to provide enough Western cultural goods to provincial cities helped fuel resentment over the Soviet Union’s capital, Moscow, and encourage support for breakaway nationalist movements that led to the Soviet Union’s collapse in 1991. Despite the Cold War, in both the Soviet bloc and in the capitalist West, political elites responded to perceived threats posed by youth cultures and music in similar manners. Young people participated in a global youth culture while expressing their own local views of the world.Language: EnglishCountry/Region of Manufacture: USItem Height: 228mmItem Length: 152mmItem Width: 24mmItem Weight: 467gRelease Year: 2017 Missing Information?Please contact us if any details are missing and where possible we will add the information to our listing.
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Book Title: Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc
Title: Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc
Subtitle: Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe
Contributor: Sergei I. Zhuk (Contributions by)
ISBN-10: 1498508758
EAN: 9781498508759
ISBN: 9781498508759
Genre: History
Topic: Society & Culture
Release Date: 01/18/2017
Release Year: 2017
Country/Region of Manufacture: US
Number of Pages: 344 Pages
Publication Name: Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc : Youth Cultures, Music, and the State in Russia and Eastern Europe
Language: English
Publisher: Lexington Books/Fortress Academic
Item Height: 0.9 in
Publication Year: 2017
Subject: History & Criticism, Philosophy & Social Aspects, Russia & the Former Soviet Union, Sociology / General, Social History, Genres & Styles / Pop Vocal
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.5 Oz
Subject Area: Music, Social Science, History
Author: Jonathyne Briggs
Item Length: 9 in
Item Width: 6 in
Format: Trade Paperback
