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Rock music, and the youth culture that it expressed, was one of the most effective mouthpieces for dissent in communist societies. Self-appointed "rock rebels" used their lyrics and the raucousness of their music to attack the regime. Communist authorities were quick to recognize the potential threat of these bands bent on "rocking the State", and reacted in different ways. While some refused to accept rock music at all, others - such as the East German leadership - tried to control and monitor rock through State-imposed regulations. Strategies for control ranged from requiring musicians and DJs to pass tests on Marxist ideology, to censoring lyrics, record covers and clothing, and insisting on haircuts for band members. The contributors to this book reflect in detail and at a wider level upon the use of rock music as a powerful tool in the political sub-culture of the communist states.

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Sabrina P. Ramet is professor of political science at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology in Trondheim, Norway. She is the author of six other books, among them Whose Democracy? Nationalism, Religion, and the Doctrine of Collective Rights in Post-1989 Eastern Europe (1997) and Nihil Obstat: Religion, Politics, and Social Change in East-Central Europe and Russia (1998). She has also edited a dozen books, mostly about Eastern Europe and Russia.
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These 11 essays constitute what editor Ramet, who teaches international studies at the University of Washington, calls "the first scholarly attempt" to systematically address rock music in Eastern Europe and Russia. The wealth of information presented here should absorb specialists. Ramet asserts that rock was the beat behind the 1989 revolutions in Eastern Europe, and, indeed, the essays, most of which focus on a single country, show how music there is infused with politics. For example, in Czechoslovakia, Ramet writes, a 1976 trial of the group Plastic People of the Universe led to the drafting of the human rights document Charter 77. In East Germany, observes Olaf Leitner, rock music was the art most in conflict with the state. Though essays like Laszlo Kurti's on Hungarian rock lapse into academic jargon, they nevertheless, through analysis of song lyrics, show how musicians have constructed alternative views of sexual and social mores. Particularly intriguing are a 1989 interview with a Sarajevan musician who presciently predicted war and an essay on Dean Reed, an American actor/singer who became an East Bloc star, only to die mysteriously in East Berlin in 1986. Photos not seen by PW.
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  • PublisherWestview Press
  • Publication date1994
  • ISBN 10 0813317630
  • ISBN 13 9780813317632
  • BindingPaperback
  • Number of pages317
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