Unzipped Souls
- Author: Minor, William
William Minor, taking the reader on a tour of the Soviet jazz circuit in the twilight of communism, personalizes the phenomenon with accounts he gathered from folks who, in the face of seemingly... — More…
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Contents
- Acknowledgments
- Introduction
- Part I : Homework
- 1. Now's the Time
- 2. A Man from Mars
- 3. The Breakthrough
- 4. Predecessors
- 5. Homegrown Bureaucracy...And a Citizen of Boston
- Part II : Moscow
- 6. A Critic's Apartment and the Youth Hotel
- 7. First Concerts, Our Dinner with Irene, and a Man Who Loves the Blues
- 8. The Belle of Baku and the Bear of Bulgaria
- 9. Two Bad Boys
- 10. "Man, He Is the Best!"
- 11. The Last Supper
- Part III : Leningrad and the Republics
- 12. Peter-the-First Stew
- 13. The Freedom Monument
- 14. The Ukraine, in Joy and Sorrow
- 15. The Healing Waters of Tbilisi
- 16. Leningrad Shadows and the Long White Night Coda
- Index