Descript |
xvii, 440 p. : ill. ; 24 cm. |
Contents |
Introduction: Back in the USSR : the "glory days" of late socialism, fascination with the West, identities, and scholars -- The closed rocket city of Dniepropetrovsk -- Anti-Soviet crimes, poetry, and problematic nationalism, 1960-1968 -- The campaign against the novel Sobor and the end of the national literary revival -- The first wave of music from the West : the consumption of jazz -- Beatlemania, shocking blue, and the Ukrainian cossacks -- Sources of rock music consumption -- Western adventure stories and Ukrainian historical novels : problems of the homogenization of Soviet culture -- Crimes from the West : Westerns, the Mafia, and crime films -- Idiocy and historical romance from the West : comedy and historical films -- The democratization of rock music consumption -- Popular religiosity in the Dniepropetrovsk region : cultural consumption and religion -- Taming pop music consumption : from "Tantsploshchadka" to discotheque -- The Komsomol magazine Rovesnik and the ideology of pop music consumption -- Antipunk campaigns, antifascist hysteria, and human rights problems, 1982-1984 -- Tourism, cultural consumption, and Komsomol business -- Conclusion: "Between Moscow and L'viv" : the closed city as an ideological failure of late socialism. |
ISBN |
9780801895500 |
|
0801895502 |
|