Notes from Underground: Rock Music Counterculture in Russia

by Thomas Cushman

Describes the Russian rock music counterculture and how it is changing in response to Russia's transition from a socialist to a capitalist society. It explores the lived experiences, the thoughts and feelings of the rock musicians as they meet the challenges of change.

Genres: Russia, Sociology, Music

427 pages, Paperback

First published July 1, 1995

About the author

Thomas Cushman is a professor of sociology at Wellesley College and the founder and editor in chief of the Journal of Human Rights. He is the author of numerous books and articles on cultural dissidence in Russia, the war in Bosnia and Hercegovina, genocide and the sociology of intellectuals and war. He was a Mellon Foundation New Directions Fellow for 2002, a fellow of the Salzburg Seminar academic core session on International Law and Human Rights, chaired by Lloyd Cutler and Richard Goldstone, and a former visiting scholar at the Carr Center for Human Rights Policy at Harvard University; he is currently a faculty associate at the Center for Cultural Sociology, Yale University.

Reviews

[Tina Siegel · Rating 5 out of 5]

Cushman wrote this book as the Soviet Union collapsed - it's a fascinating before and after of Russian counter-culture.