Balkan Beats - An Oral History

"e;I really enjoyed the book's gung-ho style."e;  - Simon Broughton—  Songlines, London -------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"e;Gleefully blunt."e; - Daniel Spicer— The Wire, London-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"e;This book is going to be mined for raw material by Balkan culturologists for a long time to come."e;— Prof Eric Gordy, University College London-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"e;Hardcore anthropology writing - on drugs! Finally, an inside look at the BalkanBeats craze, from Yugo-land to Yugo-wars to Yugo-diaspora. Thank you for filling the gap."e;— Christoph Borkowsky, CEO Piranha Arts & WOMEX, Berlin------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"e;A detailed, multifaceted, valuable work – funny sex scenes, heartbreak, and drug-fueled excess included."e;— Ines Körver, Folker Magazin-------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------"e;An impressive panorama of an era brought vividly back to life – a must-read."e;— Chris Baumgarten, Balkan Stories Vienna DESCRIPTIONBalkanBeats DJ Robert Šoko and music journalist Robert Rigney have put together the highly compelling Balkan Beats – An Oral History looking back on 30 years of Balkan music madness in Berlin, New York, Istanbul, Tokyo – and beyond.From articles, memories and interviews with over 130 artists, a fascinating portrait of a scene emerges that at its peak aspired to be "e;the new rock'n'roll"e;. Balkan Beats Book has adopted the "e;oral history"e; format, a literary genre that has gained in popularity in recent years.The book consists of edited passages from a collection of interviews and anecdotes that are tightly woven together into an accurate chronology. The model is the 1996 classic Please Kill Me – The Oral History of Punk.