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Author
Publisher
Bloomsbury
Pub. Date
2013.
Language
English
Description
Documents the improbable role of Beatles music in the downfall of the Soviet Union, tracing the progress of bootleg recordings and illegal broadcasts that inspired Soviet youth to abandon decades of official culture and authoritarianism.
Author
Publisher
Canongate
Pub. Date
2007.
Language
English
Description
Between 1965 and 1972, political activists around the globe prepared to mount a revolution. While the Vietnam War raged, calls for black power grew louder and liberation movements erupted everywhere from Berkeley, Detroit, and Newark, to Paris, Berlin, Ghana, and Peking. Rock and soul music fueled the revolutionary movement with anthems and iconic imagery. Soon the musicians themselves, from John Lennon and Bob Dylan to James Brown and Fela Kuti,...
Publisher
Golden World Films
Pub. Date
2023
Language
English
Description
"A new account of the punk girls that rocked a country and how their fight for human rights reverberates extra significantly today. Pussy Riot continues to challenge Putin's regime. Today, they are on the lamb from the tyranny, barely escaping the country. This doc shows a historical trajectory of the band and what they are doing today."--Container.
7) White riot
Publisher
Film Movement
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
"Britain, late-1970s. Punk is exploding. The country is deeply divided over immigration. The National Front, a far-right political party, is gaining strength as politicians like Enoch Powell push a xenophobic agenda. Outraged by a racist speech from Eric Clapton, music photographer Red Saunders teams up with like-minded creatives to create Rock Against Racism. The RAR zine reports on stories and issues that the mainstream British media ignores, like...
Author
Publisher
Akashic Books
Pub. Date
[2018]
Language
English
Description
"The Clash was a paradox of revolutionary conviction, musical ambition, and commercial drive. We Are The Clash is a gripping tale of the band's struggle to reinvent itself as George Orwell's 1984 loomed. This bold campaign crashed headlong into a wall of internal contradictions and rising right-wing power. While the world teetered on edge of the nuclear abyss, British miners waged a life-or-death strike, and tens of thousands died from US guns in...
Publisher
Docuramafilms
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
Russian
Description
Founded in 2011 after Vladimir Putin was given a third term as Russian president, Pussy Riot is an anonymous feminist art collective/punk band based in Moscow. The group's protest inside the cathedral was intended to protest Putin's union of church and state. On Feb. 21, 2012, they participated in a 40-second "punk prayer protest" on the altar of Moscow's Christ the Savior Cathedral before being detained. Arrested and tried for trespassing, wearing...
Publisher
Rowman & Littlefield
Pub. Date
[2023]
Language
English
Description
"This is the most wide-ranging and provocative look at punk rock as a social change movement over the past forty-five years, told through first-hand accounts of roughly 250 musicians and activists. John Malkin brings together punk's most famous figures as well as underground voices, creating a new and insightful history of punk throughout the ages"--
Author
Publisher
Hachette Book Group
Pub. Date
2024.
Language
English
Description
"A thought-provoking exploration of Bruce Springsteen's iconic album, Born in the U.S.A.--a record that both chronicled and foreshadowed the changing tides of modern America. On June 4, 1984, Columbia Records issued what would become one of the best-selling and most impactful rock albums of all time. Bruce Springsteen's Born in the U.S.A. would prove itself to be a landmark not only for the man who made it, but rock music in general and even the larger...
