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Guerrilla Radio: Rock 'N' Roll Radio and Serbia's Underground Resistance
Guerrilla Radio Rock 'N' Roll Radio and Serbia's Underground Resistance Author:Matthew Collin This is a book about a group of Belgrades young idealists and their pirate radio station B92, who began with the naive desire to simply play music, but ended up facing two wars, economic sanctions, violent police and government crackdowns, the attentions of armed gangsters and neo-Nazi politicians, and ultimately became the leaders of an o... more »pposition movement forced into exile. Before Milosevic was finally ousted in October 2000, B92 would be shut down and resume broadcasting four times as, through an inspired combination of courage, imagination, and black humorand a playlist, from The Clashs White Riot to Public Enemys rap manifesto, Fight the Power, which in sound and spirit, echoed the street fighting in which they sometimes took partit somehow persisted in disseminating the truth. Matthew Collin knows the founders of the station well and has had extraordinary access to the key personalities and their archives. He first reported on the station as part of a feature on Belgrades mass street protest in 1996. The book is based on in-depth, first person interviews and exhaustive background research. Matthew Collin captures the conviction of a generation whose culture and identity were under siege....Independent on Sunday« less