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Reconstructing Pop/Subculture: Art, Rock, and Andy Warhol. By Van M. Cagle. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage Publications, 1995. 240 pp.

the radically different environment that emerged with the fall of the Soviet Union. With other sources, including reform-oriented state media, offering many of the same critical themes that had previously been offered only in rock, the old guard of rock musicians found themselves confronted with 'obsolescence' (p. 232), and dismissed by younger pop artists as irrelevant 'old farts' (p. 288). Most importantly, they found themselves ill-equipped to adjust to technical, aesthetic, and financial demands imposed by the sudden application of commodity criteria to their music and the competition among artists that divided their (no longer) counterculture. Ironically, the same new market forces that enabled production and distribution of music disabled the earlier cultural dynamic that had made the music possible, and the counterculture found itself in a new environment that it was unaccustomed to countering. People interested in the ethnography of musical cultures will find Cushman's study very useful as an exploration of symbolic creativity under the limitations of the Soviet system, and of the ways in which profound social changes also changed the interpretation and significance of music. In addition, this study is probably the single most comprehensive and thorough investigation of Russian rock music to date. Cushman's discussion of the ways in which artists experienced the rapid social change that followed the fall of the Soviet system will prove extremely useful to researchers looking at the fate of rock and roll in the former Communist countries of Europe.