Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany - Couverture souple

Poiger, Uta G.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0520211391 ISBN 13 : 9780520211391

Editeur : University of California Press, 2000

Synopsis

In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted the new styles. Poiger reveals that East and West German authorities deployed gender and racial norms to contain Americanized youth cultures in their own territories and to carry on the ideological Cold War battle with each other. Poiger's lively account is based on an impressive array of sources, ranging from films, newspapers, and contemporary sociological studies, to German and U.S. archival materials.

Jazz, Rock, and Rebels examines diverging responses to American culture in East and West Germany by linking these to changes in social science research, political cultures, state institutions, and international alliance systems. In the first two decades of the Cold War, consumer culture became a way to delineate the boundaries between East and West. This pathbreaking study, the first comparative cultural history of the two Germanies, sheds new light on the legacy of Weimar and National Socialism, on gender and race relations in Europe, and on Americanization and the Cold War.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Uta G. Poiger is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: University of California Press
• Date d'édition: 2000
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0520211391
• ISBN 13: 9780520211391
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 347
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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