"Gleefully blunt."
— The Wire, London
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"This book is going to be mined for raw material by Balkan culturologists for a long time to come."
— Prof Eric Gordy, University College London
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"A detailed, multifaceted, valuable work – funny sex scenes, heartbreak, and drug-fueled excess included."
— Ines Körver, Folker Magazin
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"Hardcore anthropology writing - on drugs! Finally, an inside look at the BalkanBeats craze, from Yugo-land to Yugo-wars to Yugo-diaspora. Thank you for filling the gap."
— Christoph Borkowsky, CEO Piranha Arts & WOMEX, Berlin
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"An impressive panorama of an era brought vividly back to life – a must-read."
— Chris Baumgarten, Balkan Stories Vienna

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BalkanBeats DJ Robert Šoko and music journalist Robert Rigney have put together the highly compelling Balkan Beats – An Oral History looking back on 30 years of Balkan music madness in Berlin, New York, Istanbul, Tokyo – and beyond.

From articles, memories and interviews with over 130 artists, a fascinating portrait of a scene emerges that at its peak aspired to be "the new rock'n'roll". Balkan Beats Book has adopted the "oral history" format, a literary genre that has gained in popularity in recent years.

The book consists of edited passages from a collection of interviews and anecdotes that are tightly woven together into an accurate chronology. The model is the 1996 classic Please Kill Me – The Oral History of Punk.

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