In Search of Tito’s Punks

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On the Road in a Country That No Longer Exists

Häftad, Engelska, 2026

629 kr

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The book traces the story of how a song recorded in 1981 by a young punk rock band from a cultural backwater on the English-Welsh border, and released on a tiny independent record label, became famous in a Yugoslavia formed in the image of Marshall Tito? Why was it 30 years before the members of the band found out? How did this ‘socialist’ country have one of the most vibrant punk scenes in the world?Gloucester, England, 1981; multi-racial, teenage street-punk band, Demob, recorded and released what would become their best known and most enduring song, No Room For You. A rasping vocal told the story of the 1979 closure of a short-lived, punk rock venue at a disused motel on the edge of the provincial city. Depending on your mind-set, the lyrics were either a howl of rage at the injustice, a wail at the loss, or a love-song to an era.More than three decades later, the author – and Demob’s bass player in 1981 – set out to follow the song across a country that no longer exists. On the road he heard the life stories of the heroes of Yugoslavian punk and the punks themselves; from the Tito era, through the disintegration and wars, forced displacements and permanent exiles, to today’s turbulent ‘reconstruction. Who were ’Tito’s punks’ and who are they now?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. Rather, it is a mural and soundtrack of a journey through a time and place which no longer exists.The latest addition to the Global Punk series from Intellect.

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Utgivningsdatum2026-08-10
Mått148 x 210 x undefined mm
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
SerieGlobal Punk
Antal sidor274
FörlagIntellect
ISBN9781835953686

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ForewordAcknowledgementsNotes on PronunciationPrologue: The Play-on Track: Teenage KicksOne: Scheveningen: Paint It BlackTwo: The Hague to Gruška 4ALEKSANDAR DRAGAŠ: Club Limb, ZagrebThree: Zagreb: Black Lamb and Grey FalconZDENKO FRANJIĆ: Club 22, Prečko, ZagrebFour: To Ljubljana: On the Brotherhood and Unity HighwayFive: A Day in Court: Vermeer in BosniaANTE ČIKARA: The Haven, Scheveningen and De Pijp, AmsterdamSix: Music Is the Art of TimePERO LOVŠIN: The Fish Market, LjubljanaSeven: The Ljubljana Punk Rock Taxi TourMARIN ROSIĆ: On the Road in LjubljanaEight: Return to ZagrebMATIJA VUICA AND JURE POPOVIĆ: The Bulldog, Central ZagrebNine: Zagreb (1977) ... and Tito’s Coming to TownDARKO RUNDEK: Caffe Bar Albatros, Ljubljanica 4, ZagrebTen: The Hague HiltonEleven: Istria: Pirates and Punk Rock HeartlandsRUJANA JEGER: ZagrebTwelve: Pula: Uljanik CallingSALE VERUDA: Forum Square, Pula Thirteen: England: Back to the ForestROBERT ‘MIFF’ SMITH: Coleford, Gloucestershire, EnglandFourteen: To Belgrade: On the Brotherhood and Unity Highway Again Fifteen: Internacionalnih BrigadaPETAR JANJATOVIĆ: Radost Fina Kuhinjica, BelgradeSixteen: Lost in Belgrade CentralBRANKO ROSIĆ: Belgrade café terraceSeventeen: Kafana Mornar: Belgrade Is DrowningPOGONBGD, TRNJE AND FRIENDS: Kafana Mornar and Studio Mašina 23Eighteen: Novi Sad, Vojvodina: Words and BulletsNineteen: Novi Sad: NATO Bombs and Jew Street GhostsSTEVAN GOJKOV, VLADIMIR ‘RADULE’ RADUSINOVIĆ AND SAVA SAVIĆ: Central Novi SadTwenty: To Kragujevac: On the Brotherhood and Unity Highway Once MoreVUJA (SAŠA VUJIĆ): Kragujevac Twenty One: Return to Belgrade: The House of FlowersSleeve Notes: Standing at the Gates of the West: Hitsville YugoTimeline: Yugoslavian Punk from 1975 Until Break-Up(VINKO BARIĆ)Selected DiscographyIndex

'It’s a terrific read, equal parts travel memoir, rock’n’roll history, and bittersweet recollection of a country fractured and dismantled, seamlessly integrating past and present, politics and culture, and the alternating voices of the author and a variety of fascinating characters he meets on the way. Musicians and businessmen, artists and thugs, Bosnians, Serbs, Croats, and all the rest, thrown together and then torn apart, each with their own story to tell, by turns hilarious, inspiring, and tragic. Engaging, thoughtful, and shot through with a certain melancholy, much too sharp to be dismissed as mere nostalgia, for a time and place seeming lost forever. In Search of Tito’s Punks is one of the more interesting and original rock books to come along in some time.'

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