In Search of Tito’s Punks - On the Road in a Country That No Longer Exists

An unvarnished but also affectionate portrait of Yugoslavia in the years before its demise through to the present, seen through the unlikely lens of punk and punk rockers. Part travelogue, part history the book is both, and neither, of those things. A mural and soundtrack of a journey through a time and place which no longer exists. 31 b/w illus.

About the author

Barry Phillips is a historian. He is also a former musician and singer-songwriter, former speech writer and policymaker, former ID parade suspect, shelf-stacker and barman.

Summary

An unvarnished but also affectionate portrait of Yugoslavia in the years before its demise through to the present, seen through the unlikely lens of punk and punk rockers. Part travelogue, part history the book is both, and neither, of those things. A mural and soundtrack of a journey through a time and place which no longer exists. 31 b/w illus.

Product details

• Authors: Barry Phillips, Barry (Independent researcher) Phillips
• Publisher: Ingram Publishers Services
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.06.2023
• EAN: 9781789387315
• ISBN: 978-1-78938-731-5
• Illustrations: Raster,schwarz-weiss
• Series: Global Punk
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Music > General, dictionaries; Punk, TRAVEL / Essays & Travelogues, Individual composers & musicians, specific bands & groups, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Sociology / General, MUSIC / Individual Composer & Musician, Society & culture: general, TRAVEL / Europe / Eastern, MUSIC / Genres & Styles / Punk, Travel writing, Yugoslavia, Punk, New Wave & Indie, Society and culture: general, Musicians, singers, bands and groups, Yugoslavia & Former Yugoslavia, Southeast Europe, The Balkans