The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground From Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar [Audiobook] download free by Franz Nicolay
- Listen audiobook: The Humorless Ladies of Border Control: Touring the Punk Underground From Belgrade to Ulaanbaatar
- Author: Franz Nicolay
- Release date: 2016/7/15
- Publisher: THE NEW PRESS
- Language: English
- Genre or Collection: Travel and Holiday Guides
- ISBN: 9781620971796
- Rating: 9.7 of 10
- Votes: 558
- Review by: Aadhya Partin
- Review rating: 7.75 of 10
- Review Date: 2018/9/2
- Duration: 4H53M48S in 256 kbps (76.8 MB)
- Date of creation of the audiobook: 2018-08-27
- You can listen to this audiobook in formats: MPEG-4 DST, WavPack, WAV, MP3, FLAC, WMA, MPEG4 (compression TAR.GZ, ZIP, AZW4, BZ, RAR)
- Total pages original book: 384
- Includes a PDF summary of 34 pages
- Duration of the summary (audio): 25M25S (6.8 MB)
- Description or summary of the audiobook: In 2009, musician Franz Nicolay left his job in the Hold Steady, aka 'the world's greatest bar band.' Over the next five years, he crossed the world with a guitar in one hand, a banjo in the other, and an accordion on his back, playing the anarcho-leftist squats and DIY spaces of the punk rock diaspora. He meets Polish artists nostalgic for their revolutionary days, Mongolian neo-Nazis in full SS regalia, and a gay expat in Ulaanbaatar who needs an armed escort between his home and his job. The Russian punk scene is thrust onto the international stage with the furor surrounding the arrest of the group Pussy Riot, and Ukrainians find themselves in the midst of a revolution and then a full-blown war.> While engaging with the works of literary predecessors from Rebecca West to Chekhov and the nineteenth-century French aristocrat the Marquis de Custine, Nicolay explores the past and future of punk rock culture in the postcommunist world in the kind of book a punk rock Paul Theroux might have written, with a humor reminiscent of Gary Shteyngart. An audacious debut from a vivid new voice, The Humorless Ladies of Border Control is an unforgettable, funny, and sharply drawn depiction of surprisingly robust hidden spaces tucked within faraway lands.
- Other categories, genre or collection: Travel Writing, Music Reviews & Criticism, Biography: General, Punk, New Wave & Indie, Guidebooks
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- Format: Hardback
- Approximate value: 28.91 USD
- Dimensions: 133x191x27.94mm
- Weight: 496g
- Printed by: Not Available
- Published in: NY, United States
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