Atomic Tunes

Tim Smolko holds master's degrees in Musicology and Library Science and is Monographs Original Cataloger at the University of Georgia. He is author of Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick and A Passion Play: Inside Two Long Songs, which won the 2014 Award for Excellence in Historical Recorded Sound Research in Recorded Rock Music from the Association for Recorded Sound Collections. Joanna Smolko holds a PhD in Musicology and is Adjunct Professor of Music at the Hugh Hodgson School of Music at the University of Georgia. She has published journal articles and book chapters and was a contributing editor for the second edition of The Grove Dictionary of American Music. Tim and Joanna live in Athens, Georgia. They have 13-year-old twins Ian and Elanor.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroduction: Cold War History in Music and Lyrics1. Folk: From Paul Robeson to Bob Dylan2. Folk: Women's Voices3. Country: The Conservative Stance4. Novelty and Comedy Songs: The Cold War as a Big Joke5. Early Rock and Other Styles: Rocking the Bomb6. Mainstream Rock: Bowie, U2, Sting, Billy Joel, and Springsteen7. Hard Rock and Heavy Metal: The Electric Guitar as the Bomb8. Punk Rock: Three Chords and the Apocalypse9. Electronic and New Wave: The Cold War in a Synthesizer10. Wind of Change: The Fall of the Wall and the End of the Cold WarConclusionBibliography, Discography, VideographyIndex

This work is an engaging and informative read that would be a welcome addition to library shelves.- Sarah Garretson - Marvin Duchow Music Library, McGill University, Montreal, QC, Canada (Music Reference Services Quartery)