| Description |
371 pages : map ; 20 cm |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-367). |
| Contents |
The humorless ladies of border control (Ukraine) -- Party for everybody (Rostov-on-Don to Saint Petersburg) -- A real Lenin of our time (Moscow) -- God-forget-it house (Trans-Siberian) -- The knout and the pierogi (Tomsk to Baikal) -- The hall of sufficient looking (Trans-Mongolian) -- Drunk nihilists make a good audience (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia) -- A fur coat with morsels (Hungary, Poland) -- Poor, but they have style (Romania) -- You are an asshole big time (Bulgaria) -- Don't bring your beer in church (Bucharest to Vienna) -- Changing the country, we apologize for the inconvenience (Ukraine after the flood). |
| Summary |
In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job and 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. 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. |
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Nicolay, Franz -- Travel -- Europe, Eastern.
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Nicolay, Franz -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
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Nicolay, Franz -- Travel -- Mongolia.
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Punk culture -- Europe, Eastern.
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Punk rock music -- Europe, Eastern.
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Europe, Eastern -- Description and travel.
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Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel.
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Mongolia -- Description and travel.
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| Genre/Form |
Autobiographies.
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| Other Form: |
Online version: Nicolay, Franz. Humorless ladies of border control New York : New Press, 2016 9781620971802 (DLC) 2016014551 |
| ISBN |
9781620971796 hardcover |
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1620971798 hardcover |
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