Red Wave
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Business and cultural pioneers don’t set out to light the world on fire but end up doing so through ingenuity and determination. While we often think of globalization as factories and container ships, the exchange of goods and ideas between nations starts with one person finding something people in another nation would value. Joanna Stingray was that one person who brought Soviet rock music to America and did so in remarkable fashion.
—ForbesThanks to a resourceful Los Angeles singer and songwriter who heard—and liked—their brand of Russian rock, the bands are now playing to a faraway audience. [...] The album is the brainchild of Joanna Stingray a.k.a. Joanna Fields, 25, who has been exploring the Soviet Union’s unofficial and unheralded rock world since 1984.
—NewsweekEight trips later she had ‘smuggled’ enough tapes of Kino and other groups out of the Soviet Union to produce an album, Red Wave–a kind of Greatest Hits of Socialist Rock. At first the Soviet press denigrated Stingray’s tales of the “brave little American miss helping the oppressed Soviet musicians” as a self-serving fantasy. Now, though, inspired by glasnost if not by greed, Soviet officialdom has cut a deal with her to produce 10 albums of “unofficial music” for consumption in the U.S.
—People MagazineThe music on Red Wave – which ranges from the ska-tinged pop of Kino to the brooding, introspective songwriting of Grebenshchikov – was recorded mostly in cramped living rooms transformed into home studios with borrowed two-track and eight-track equipment. The lyrics, sung in Russian (a translated lyric sheet is provided), are not overtly political. But veiled reference to politics shine through, as does a keen awareness of progressive Western rock.
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—Rolling Stone
North American and UK Print and Broadcast Campaign
Targeted Regional Marketing Campaign
Social Media Campaign
Co-op Available
ARCs and DRCs available through Edelweiss
Targeted outreach to music press to reach multi-generational fan base
Author tour: Southern California, Washington DC, London
"Wind of Change" Spotify podcast special 45-minute episode on July 6 focuses on Joanna Stingray with interviews about her times in the Leningrad Rock Club and getting arrested by the KGB.
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Targeted Regional Marketing Campaign
Social Media Campaign
Co-op Available
ARCs and DRCs available through Edelweiss
Targeted outreach to music press to reach multi-generational fan base
Author tour: Southern California, Washington DC, London
"Wind of Change" Spotify podcast special 45-minute episode on July 6 focuses on Joanna Stingray with interviews about her times in the Leningrad Rock Club and getting arrested by the KGB.
CNN Moscow Bureau Chief Nathan Hodge to interview Joanna next time she is in Russia and will tie the English release of the book to its airing.
The Moscow correspondent for The Guardian (UK), Marc Bennetts, will do an article when the English version comes out. He interviewed Joanna last year.
Hollie McKay, Foreign Affairs Reporter for Fox News Digital did an online profile piece on Joanna last April and we will reach out for her to do a follow up piece when the English version is out.
The Beverly Hills Weekly newspaper will do a big story on the book release with photos.
Forthcoming CBC Radio q feature on Stingray timed with book release, which will be aired in Canada on CBC Radio 1 and in the U.S. on NPR and Sirius XM and internationally through PRI for a combined of 3 million listeners a week; the host is Tom Power.
Wide academic outreach
Detaljer
- Forlag
- DoppelHouse Press
- Innbinding
- Paperback
- Språk
- Engelsk
- ISBN
- 9781733957922
- Utgivelsesår
- 2020
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
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«
Business and cultural pioneers don’t set out to light the world on fire but end up doing so through ingenuity and determination. While we often think of globalization as factories and container ships, the exchange of goods and ideas between nations starts with one person finding something people in another nation would value. Joanna Stingray was that one person who brought Soviet rock music to America and did so in remarkable fashion.
—ForbesThanks to a resourceful Los Angeles singer and songwriter who heard—and liked—their brand of Russian rock, the bands are now playing to a faraway audience. [...] The album is the brainchild of Joanna Stingray a.k.a. Joanna Fields, 25, who has been exploring the Soviet Union’s unofficial and unheralded rock world since 1984.
—NewsweekEight trips later she had ‘smuggled’ enough tapes of Kino and other groups out of the Soviet Union to produce an album, Red Wave–a kind of Greatest Hits of Socialist Rock. At first the Soviet press denigrated Stingray’s tales of the “brave little American miss helping the oppressed Soviet musicians” as a self-serving fantasy. Now, though, inspired by glasnost if not by greed, Soviet officialdom has cut a deal with her to produce 10 albums of “unofficial music” for consumption in the U.S.
—People MagazineThe music on Red Wave – which ranges from the ska-tinged pop of Kino to the brooding, introspective songwriting of Grebenshchikov – was recorded mostly in cramped living rooms transformed into home studios with borrowed two-track and eight-track equipment. The lyrics, sung in Russian (a translated lyric sheet is provided), are not overtly political. But veiled reference to politics shine through, as does a keen awareness of progressive Western rock.
»
—Rolling Stone