The humorless ladies of border control : touring the punk underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar
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Published
New York : The New Press, 2016.
Status
Shirlington - Adult Nonfiction
781.6609 NICOL
1 available
781.6609 NICOL
1 available
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Published
New York : The New Press, 2016.
Format
Book
Physical Desc
371 pages ; 20 cm
Language
English
Notes
Bibliography
Includes bibliographical references (pages 361-367).
Description
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 Ulaanbataar 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 in the kind of book a punk rock Paul Theroux might have written, with a humor reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart. 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.
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APA Citation, 7th Edition (style guide)
Nicolay, F. (2016). The humorless ladies of border control: touring the punk underground from Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar . The New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Author Date Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nicolay, Franz. 2016. The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground From Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar. The New Press.
Chicago / Turabian - Humanities (Notes and Bibliography) Citation, 17th Edition (style guide)Nicolay, Franz. The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground From Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar The New Press, 2016.
MLA Citation, 9th Edition (style guide)Nicolay, Franz. The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground From Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar The New Press, 2016.
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