The Humorless Ladies of Border Control
Touring the Punk Underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar
New York : The New Press, 2016.
Format: Book
Description: 371 pages : map ; 20 cm
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.
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).
Subjects:
Nicolay, Franz -- Travel -- Europe, Eastern.
Nicolay, Franz -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
Nicolay, Franz -- Travel -- Mongolia.
Punk culture -- Europe, Eastern.
Punk rock music -- Europe, Eastern.
Europe, Eastern -- Description and travel.
Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel.
Mongolia -- Description and travel.
Nicolay, Franz -- Travel -- Europe, Eastern.
Nicolay, Franz -- Travel -- Russia (Federation)
Nicolay, Franz -- Travel -- Mongolia.
Punk culture -- Europe, Eastern.
Punk rock music -- Europe, Eastern.
Europe, Eastern -- Description and travel.
Russia (Federation) -- Description and travel.
Mongolia -- Description and travel.
ISBN:
9781620971796
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Call Number | Location | Shelf Location | Status |
BIOGRAPHY Nicolay, Franz | Main (Downtown) | Third Level, Biography | In |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [361]-367).