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.
- ISBN10 0195056337
- ISBN13 9780195056334
- Publish Date 4 January 1990
- Publish Status Active
- Out of Print 15 May 2000
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Oxford University Press Inc
- Format Paperback
- Pages 288
- Language English