Rock and roll in the Rocket City
Subtitle: the West, identity, and ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985
By: Sergei I. Zhuk
Publisher: Woodrow Wilson Center Press; Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Washington, D.C; Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
Number of pages: 440
ISBN-13: 9780801895500
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 415-424) and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: Back in the USSR : the "glory days" of late socialism, fascination with the West, identities, and scholars; title: The closed rocket city of Dniepropetrovsk; title: Anti-Soviet crimes, poetry, and problematic nationalism, 1960-1968; title: The campaign against the novel Sobor and the end of the national literary revival; title: The first wave of music from the West : the consumption of jazz; title: Beatlemania, shocking blue, and the Ukrainian cossacks; title: Sources of rock music consumption; title: Western adventure stories and Ukrainian historical novels : problems of the homogenization of Soviet culture; title: Crimes from the West : Westerns, the Mafia, and crime films; title: Idiocy and historical romance from the West : comedy and historical films; title: The democratization of rock music consumption; title: Popular religiosity in the Dniepropetrovsk region : cultural consumption and religion; title: Taming pop music consumption : from "Tantsploshchadka" to discotheque; title: The Komsomol magazine Rovesnik and the ideology of pop music consumption; title: Antipunk campaigns, antifascist hysteria, and human rights problems, 1982-1984; title: Tourism, cultural consumption, and Komsomol business; title: Conclusion: "Between Moscow and L'viv" : the closed city as an ideological failure of late socialism.