This Is Serbia Calling: Rock 'n' Roll Radio and Belgrade's Underground Resistance

by Matthew Collin (Author)

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  Paperback
  2001

  $3.27

  This is the story of a courageous group of young people living under Milosevic's represssive rule, who waged a 10-year battle for freedom, armed only with a radio transmitter, some rock'n'roll records and a dream of truth, justice and another kind of life. It is a book about a group of idealists who want to play good music over the airwaves, but have to negotiate two wars, economic sanctions, violent police and government crackdowns, armed gangsters and neo-Nazi politicians. They called themselves Serbia's lost generation , the government called them spies, traitors and terrorists. Despite police raids and state censorship, they refused to be defeated and kept broadcasting their message. This record chronicles a decade (1990-2000) in which B92, an extraordinary radio station, through its use of rock music, email and the Internet, kept alive the voices of dissent.