Ryback Tymothy. Rock around the bloc: A history of rock music in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union

Oxford, UK: Oxford University Press, 1990). — 288 p. — ISBN-10: 0195056337; ISBN-13: 978-0195056334.Tracing the emergence of rock culture in Eastern Europe and the Soviet Union from 1954 to the present day, "Rock Around the Bloc" looks at both sides of the 30-year conflict between rock fans and the Communist Party. It takes the reader into the Kremlin for special Central Committee meetings devoted to the "evil" of rock music; into the streets of beleagured 1968 Prague and 1981 Poland where rock bands helped spearhead social and political reforms; and into the bedrooms of young people secretly tuning into pop broadcasts from the BBC and Radio Free Europe.ContentsIntroduction: The Sounds of SocialismOnslaught of the Coca-Cola Barbarians, 1946-1953
Rock and Rollback, \ 1954-1960
Bards of Discontent, 1956-1965
Beatlemania: Leninism Versus Lennonism, 1960-1966
You Say You Want a Revolution, 1965-1969
The Crackdown, 1965-1970
The Soviet Rock Scene, 1965-1972
Rocking the Balkans, 1965-1975
Bands on the Run, 1972-1976
The Soviet Rock Scene, 1970-1979
Punk in Hungary, 1976-1986
Punk in Poland, 1980-1986
The Final Bastions Fall, 1980-1988
The Soviet Rock Scene, 1980-1988Conclusion: Shattering the Iron CurtainChronology
Notes
Index
Illustrations