Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary

by Anna Szemere

Book Overview

What happens to a community of oppositional artists when the purpose and meaning of their opposition are undermined by social transformation? Such was the dilemma facing many underground artists in Eastern Europe following the collapse of state socialism. In Up from the Underground, Anna Szemere looks at the underground based on rock music in Hungary, showing how it anticipated, precipitated, and responded to a period of fundamental change...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0271021330
• ISBN13: 9780271021331
• Release Date: October 2001
• Publisher: Penn State University Press
• Length: 264 Pages
• Weight: 1.00 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"