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Indymedia Ireland is a volunteer-run non-commercial open publishing website for local and international news, opinion & analysis, press releases and events. Its main objective is to enable the public to participate in reporting and analysis of the news and other important events and aspects of our daily lives and thereby give a voice to people.

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{mp3 #3} Theories of Sub-Culture and Counter-Culture in the USSR - 60's to the 80's

category international | arts and media | other press author Thursday February 12, 2009 18:50author by redjade Report this post to the editors

Part five of a public lecture series at Budapest's Central European University ( http://www.CEU.hu )

I'll be recording more in the weeks ahead and posting them first on Indymedia.ie and then reposted to my own blog 24 hours later at http://LMV.hu/redjade

{Apologies for not being about to record last week's class on Slovenia}
Sabrina Ramet Phd
Sabrina Ramet Phd

February 11, Soviet Union

Guest: Sabrina Ramet (Trondheim)

• Sabrina Petra Ramet, Sergei Zamascikov, and Robert Bird, The Soviet Rock Scene In: Rocking the State by Sabrina P. Ramet, 181-218. [pdf: http://www.hist.ceu.hu/readers/countercultures/ramet.pdf ]
• W. J. Risch, Soviet “Flower Children”, hippies and the youth counter-culture in the 1970s L’viv, Journal of Contemporary History, 40 (2005), 565-84. JSTOR [pdf: http://www.hist.ceu.hu/readers/countercultures/risch.pdf]

Recommended readings:
• Russian jazz: new identity / compiled and edited by Leo Feigin Published London : Quartet Books, 1985
• Thomas Cushman, Notes from Underground: Rock Music Counterculture in Russia (State University of New York Press, 1995) (excerpts)
• Neil Edmunds, Soviet Music and Society under Lenin and Stalin: The Baton and Sickle Routledge, Curzon, 2004 (excerpts)
• Mark Yoffe, “Hippies in the Baltic” Cross Currents 1988 (p. 157-177.)
• Sabrina Petra Ramet, "Rock Music and Counterculture", chap. 10 in Social Currents in Eastern Europe: The Sources and the Consequences of the Great Transformation, 2nd ed. (Duke University Press, 1995)

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Sabrina P. Ramet
PhD., Professor of Political Science
http://www.svt.ntnu.no/iss/Sabrina.Ramet/card/

More info:
https://www.msu.edu/~tjpc/Ramet.htm

.. .. ..
MP3's posted at Archive.org
http://www.archive.org/details/CEU_Counter-Cultural.Mov...to80s

'Soviet Rock for Budapest'
'Soviet Rock for Budapest'

http://ia331428.us.archive.org/0/items/CEU_Counter-Cultural.Movements.in.USSR.60sto80s/1-Counter-Cultural.Movements.in.USSR.60sto80s.mp3

Embedded audio: http://ia331428.us.archive.org/0/items/CEU_Counter-Cultural.Movements.in.USSR.60sto80s/1-Counter-Cultural.Movements.in.USSR.60sto80s.mp3

http://ia331428.us.archive.org/0/items/CEU_Counter-Cultural.Movements.in.USSR.60sto80s/2-Counter-Cultural.Movements.in.USSR.60sto80s.mp3

Embedded audio: http://ia331428.us.archive.org/0/items/CEU_Counter-Cultural.Movements.in.USSR.60sto80s/2-Counter-Cultural.Movements.in.USSR.60sto80s.mp3

author by redjadepublication date Fri Feb 13, 2009 00:02author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thank you for reading/listening - nice to know someone is interested in this obscure topic :-)

The reading list is not my own - it comes from: http://www.hist.ceu.hu/?q=node/355

Also, I forgot to list the previous MP3's I've uploaded from this public lecture series....

{mp3 #2} Theories of Sub-Culture and Counter-Culture in Czechoslovakia - 60's to the 80's

with Martin Machovec and Trever Hagen
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/90902

and

{mp3 #1} Theories of Sub-Culture and Counter-Culture in Central & Eastern Europe
with Anna Wessely
http://www.indymedia.ie/article/90849

Next week's class will be about Romania.

author by Conorpublication date Thu Feb 12, 2009 21:56author address author phone Report this post to the editors

Thanks for the reading list redjade, great post.

 
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