In the wake of 1960s hippiedom, when a revolution in rock and roll coincided with the resurgence of singer-songwriter folk, folk-rock was an utterly unavoidable cornerstone of the Western airwaves during the 1970s. Behind the Iron Curtain, though, musical expression of any kind was not so simple. Music, like virtually all forms of culture and society, was placed under the watchful eye of the Soviet state during the Cold War, with Westernised sou…
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