Notes from Underground: Rock Music Counterculture in Russia

by Thomas Cushman

Book Overview

Notes From Underground offers the first Western sociological study of rock music and counterculture in Russian society. Based on participant observation, in-depth interviews, and life-history analysis, the author provides a detailed ethnographic examination of the origins and local meanings of rock music and the countercultural way of life of rock musicians in St. Petersburg during the socialist period of Russian history. Rock music served as the...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0791425436
• ISBN13: 9780791425435
• Release Date: July 1995
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 427 Pages
• Weight: 1.65 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.2" x 9.2"