Rock and Roll in the Rocket City: The West, Identity, and Ideology in Soviet Dniepropetrovsk, 1960-1985

by Sergei I. Zhuk

Tracing the impact of rock and roll on Soviet-era Ukrainian culture.

How did rock music and other products of Western culture come to pervade youth culture in Brezhnev-era Dniepropetrovsk, a Ukrainian city essentially closed to outsiders and heavily policed by the KGB? In Rock and Roll in the Rocket City, Sergei I. Zhuk assesses the impact of Westernization on the city's youth, examining the degree to which the consumption of...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0801895502
• ISBN13: 9780801895500
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
• Length: 464 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.5" x 6.4" x 9.0"
• Grade Range: Postsecondary and higher