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This is Serbia Calling, Rock N Roll Radio & Belgrade's Underground Resistance
This is Serbia Calling Rock N Roll Radio Belgrade's Underground Resistance Author:Matthew Collin This is the story of a courageous group of young people living under Milosevic's repressive 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's a book about a group of idealists who started out wanting to play good music o... more »ver the airwaves but had to negotiate two wars, economic sanctions, police violence and government crackdowns, armed gangsters and neo-Nazi politicians.
They called themselves Serbia's "lost generation"; the government called them traitors, spies and terrorists. Despite police raids and state censorship, they refused to be defeated, and kept on broadcasting their message. This is Serbia Calling 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. The book ends with the fall of Milosevic and B92 going back on air.« less