Introduction; 1 Swinging between East and West; 2 Against "Pop-Song" Poison from the West; 3 Coercion and Consumption; 4 Only Rock 'n' Roll?; 5 The Making of the Gang; 6 Détente and Western Cultural Products in Soviet Ukraine during the 1970s; 7 Punk and the State of Youth in the GDR; 8 "A Room-Sized Ocean"; 9 Shostakovich versus Boney M.; 10 Facing the Music; 11 Rockin' Down the Mainline; 12 East of (Teenaged) Eden, or, Is Eastern Youth Culture So Different from the West?; Select Bibliography; Index; About the Contributors.
Summary
Youth and Rock in the Soviet Bloc explores the impact of Western popular culture on young people in Russia and Eastern Europe during the Cold War.
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