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Sto caricando le informazioni... The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatardi Franz Nicolay
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![]() Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Nikolay tells of his travels through Eastern Europe to Mongolia and back, playing a sometimes impromptu circuit of DIY spaces. We meet the relentless and the run-down and the people who love them, mull the resourcefulness of creative sorts stuck in bleak Balkan corners, and marvel at the resilience of the narrator, who paints such an engaging picture. The appended playlist is a fascinating trip from samizdat Soviet singer-poets and the dark post-Soviet Siberian underground through Balkan and Mongolian folk forms to scruffy festival acts in muddy fields and the killer Kyiv punk-cabaret scene. Back East Porter Evil Twin Molotov Surprise Imperial IPA Nikolay takes his banjo and accordion through Siberia, Mongolia, the Balkans (with Black Lamb and Grey Falcon as a brickish vade mecum) and Ukraine and shows us dilapidated traditions and denuded landscapes, the universal vigor of young people (and drunks), dingy post-communist way stations and strangely robust clusters of underground/DIY music enthusiasts. Humorless Ladies is inspiring and wise. Nikolay presents music and literature (Herodotus to Butthole Surfers) as a kind of global cultural commons—but a space riven by locally particular and lasting fractures. The closing chapter considering a series of shows in Ukraine during the 2014 Russian invasion provides a fitting end to a fascinating book. nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, AKA "the world's greatest bar band." Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. He meets Polish artists nostalgic for their revolutionary days, Mongolian neo-Nazis in full SS regalia, and a gay expat in Ulaanbaatar who needs an armed escort between his home and his job. The Russian punk scene is thrust onto the international stage with the furor surrounding the arrest of the group Pussy Riot, and Ukrainians find themselves in the midst of a revolution and then a full-blown war. While engaging with the works of literary predecessors from Rebecca West to Chekhov and the nineteenth-century French aristocrat the Marquis de Custine, Nicolay explores the past and future of punk rock culture in the post-Communist world. An audacious debut from a vivid new voice, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control is an unforgettable, funny, and sharply drawn depiction of surprisingly robust hidden spaces tucked within faraway lands. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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And then you emerge on the other side of this trip with your musical tastes completely reshaped. I'm so much into gypsy punk now, and I think I may try to grow a handlebar mustache!.. (