How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies
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How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies by Amy Knight
On their debut, The Clash famously claimed to be bored with the USA, +? but The Clash wasn't a parochial record. Mick Jones' licks on songs such as Hate and War+? were heavily influenced by classic American rock and roll, and the cover of Junior Murvin's reggae hit Police and Thieves+? showed that the band's musical influences were already wide-ranging. Later albums such as Sandinista and Combat Rock saw them experimenting with a huge range of musical genres, lyrical themes and visual aesthetics. The Clash Takes on the World explores the transnational aspects of The Clash's music, lyrics and politics, and it does so from a truly transnational perspective. It brings together literary scholars, historians, media theorists, musicologists, social activists and geographers from Europe and the US, and applies a range of critical approaches to The Clash's work in order to tackle a number of key questions: How should we interpret their negotiations with reggae music and culture? How did The Clash respond to the specific socio-political issues of their time, such as the economic recession, the Reagan-Thatcher era and burgeoning neoliberalism, and international conflicts in Nicaragua and the Falkland Islands? How did they reconcile their anti-capitalist stance with their own success and status as a global commodity? And how did their avowedly inclusive, multicultural stance, reflected in their musical diversity, square with the experience of watching the band in performance? The Clash Takes on the World is essential reading for scholars, students and general readers interested in a band whose popularity endures.
Knight, Amy: - Amy Knight is the author of How the Cold War Began and Orders to Kill, and has written more than thirty scholarly articles and contributed numerous pieces on Russian politics and history to the New York Review of Books and The Times Literary Supplement. Her articles have also been published in The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Wilson Quarterly. She lives in New Jersey.
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ISBN 13 | 9780771095771 |
ISBN 10 | 0771095775 |
Title | How the Cold War Began: The Gouzenko Affair and the Hunt for Soviet Spies |
Author | Amy Knight |
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Binding Type | Hardback |
Publisher | Mcclelland And Stewart |
Year published | 2005-01-01 |
Number of pages | 368 |
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