In Search of Tito’s Punks - Barry Phillips

In Search of Tito’s Punks

On the Road in a Country That No Longer Exists

(Autor)

Buch | Hardcover
274 Seiten
2023
Intellect Books (Verlag)
978-1-78938-731-5 (ISBN)
37,35 inkl. MwSt
The book traces the story of how a song recorded in 1981 by a young punk rock band from a cultural backwater on the English-Welsh border, and released on a tiny independent record label, became famous in a Yugoslavia formed in the image of Marshall Tito? Why was it 30 years before the members of the band found out? How did this ‘socialist’ country have one of the most vibrant punk scenes in the world?



Gloucester, England, 1981; multi-racial, teenage street-punk band, Demob, recorded and released what would become their best known and most enduring song, No Room For You. A rasping vocal told the story of the 1979 closure of a short-lived, punk rock venue at a disused motel on the edge of the provincial city. Depending on your mind-set, the lyrics were either a howl of rage at the injustice, a wail at the loss, or a love-song to an era.



More than three decades later, the author – and Demob’s bass player in 1981 – set out to follow the song across a country that no longer exists. On the road he heard the life stories of the heroes of Yugoslavian punk and the punks themselves; from the Tito era, through the disintegration and wars, forced displacements and permanent exiles, to today’s turbulent ‘reconstruction. Who were ’Tito’s punks’ and who are they now?



An unvarnished but also affectionate portrait of Yugoslavia in the years before its demise through to the present, seen through the unlikely lens of punk and punk rockers. Part travelogue, part history the book is both, and neither, of those things. Rather, it is a mural and soundtrack of a journey through a time and place which no longer exists.



The latest addition to the Global Punk series from Intellect.

Barry Phillips is a historian. He is also a former musician and singer-songwriter, former speech writer and policymaker, former ID parade suspect, shelf-stacker and barman.

Foreword

Acknowledgements

Notes on Pronunciation



Prologue: The Play-on Track: Teenage Kicks



One: Scheveningen: Paint It Black



Two: The Hague to Gruška 4

ALEKSANDAR DRAGAŠ: Club Limb, Zagreb



Three: Zagreb: Black Lamb and Grey Falcon

ZDENKO FRANJIĆ: Club 22, Prečko, Zagreb



Four: To Ljubljana: On the Brotherhood and Unity Highway



Five: A Day in Court: Vermeer in Bosnia

ANTE ČIKARA: The Haven, Scheveningen and De Pijp, Amsterdam



Six: Music Is the Art of Time

PERO LOVŠIN: The Fish Market, Ljubljana



Seven: The Ljubljana Punk Rock Taxi Tour

MARIN ROSIĆ: On the Road in Ljubljana



Eight: Return to Zagreb

MATIJA VUICA AND JURE POPOVIĆ: The Bulldog, Central Zagreb



Nine: Zagreb (1977) ... and Tito’s Coming to Town

DARKO RUNDEK: Caffe Bar Albatros, Ljubljanica 4, Zagreb



Ten: The Hague Hilton



Eleven: Istria: Pirates and Punk Rock Heartlands

RUJANA JEGER: Zagreb



Twelve: Pula: Uljanik Calling

SALE VERUDA: Forum Square, Pula 



Thirteen: England: Back to the Forest

ROBERT ‘MIFF’ SMITH: Coleford, Gloucestershire, England



Fourteen: To Belgrade: On the Brotherhood and Unity Highway Again 



Fifteen: Internacionalnih Brigada

PETAR JANJATOVIĆ: Radost Fina Kuhinjica, Belgrade



Sixteen: Lost in Belgrade Central

BRANKO ROSIĆ: Belgrade café terrace



Seventeen: Kafana Mornar: Belgrade Is Drowning

POGONBGD, TRNJE AND FRIENDS: Kafana Mornar and Studio Mašina 23



Eighteen: Novi Sad, Vojvodina: Words and Bullets



Nineteen: Novi Sad: NATO Bombs and Jew Street Ghosts

STEVAN GOJKOV, VLADIMIR ‘RADULE’ RADUSINOVIĆ AND SAVA SAVIĆ: Central Novi Sad



Twenty: To Kragujevac: On the Brotherhood and Unity Highway Once More

VUJA (SAŠA VUJIĆ): Kragujevac 



Twenty One: Return to Belgrade: The House of Flowers



Sleeve Notes: Standing at the Gates of the West: Hitsville Yugo



Timeline: Yugoslavian Punk from 1975 Until Break-Up

(VINKO BARIĆ)



Selected Discography

Index

Erscheinungsdatum
Reihe/Serie Global Punk
Zusatzinfo 31 Halftones, black and white
Sprache englisch
Maße 148 x 210 mm
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater Musik Pop / Rock
Reisen Reiseberichte Europa
Sozialwissenschaften
ISBN-10 1-78938-731-0 / 1789387310
ISBN-13 978-1-78938-731-5 / 9781789387315
Zustand Neuware
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