{"product_id":"unearthing-the-music-alexander-pehlemann-9783959055406","title":"Unearthing the Music: Footnotes to Sonic Resistance in Non-Democratic Europe 1950-2000","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eFrom Polish jazz to Iberian punk--a colossal record of the underground music that soundtracked protest movements across Europe from 1950 to 2000\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThis monumental volume is the analog component of an international project initiated in Portugal, an online archive for experimental and underground protest sounds from the latter half of the 20th century. This archive covers sounds that have emerged under the \"real socialism\" of Eastern Europe as well as the often-overlooked regimes of Spain, Portugal and the Greek military dictatorship. \u003ci\u003eUnearthing the Music\u003c\/i\u003e charts the key stages of sonic resistance: the citizenship's fraught relationship with the state, the accruing power of counter-communities producing dissident sounds and the disappointments that follow liberation. Abundantly illustrated with archival photos and ephemera, the volume traces the development of jazz in Poland and the GDR, conceptual post-punk in Yugoslavia, state-run electronic music studios, Roentgenizdat and Magnetizdat productions, Romanian avant-garde, Iberian punk and the Ukrainian underground, among other topics.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Alexander Pehlemann\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 3959055404\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9783959055406\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Spector Books\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 03\/31\/2026\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 624\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback","brand":"Alexander Pehlemann","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":48013692338431,"sku":"9783959055406","price":35.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_44fa3b24-e495-4522-9008-453c09e3fef8.jpg?v=1767744173","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/unearthing-the-music-alexander-pehlemann-9783959055406","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}