Jazz Behind the Iron Curtain - Couverture rigide

Pickhan, Gertrud; Ritter, Rüdiger

Couverture rigide

ISBN 10 : 3631591721 ISBN 13 : 9783631591727

Editeur : Peter Lang AG, 2011

Synopsis

Jazz has never been simply music. From its very inception, jazz has been imbued with social meaning. This is what makes this kind of music an interesting field of study not only for the music historian, but also for the sociologist and the cultural historian. In the state socialist countries of East-Central Europe after World War II, jazz acquired a special meaning as a symbol of the American way of life, a symbol of freedom – at least for its admirers. The ruling elites and the establishment regarded jazz as music of the class enemy, a music of social degeneration. These contrasting views on jazz led to hot debates over jazz and the implementation of complicated policies towards jazz music and the jazz scene, which oscillated between affirmation and repression.

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À propos de l?auteur

Gertrud Pickhan is Professor of East-Central European History at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Rüdiger Ritter has graduated in History of East and East Central Europe and Musicology. Both conduct a research project at Freie Universität Berlin on Jazz under State Socialism.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Peter Lang AG
• Date d'édition: 2011
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 3631591721
• ISBN 13: 9783631591727
• Reliure: Relié
• Nombre de pages: 318
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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