Overview
- Considers different aspects of popular music, such as cultural policy, censorship, journalism and stars
- Covers most Eastern European countries
- Written by specialists with inside knowledge of Eastern European music
Part of the book series: Pop Music, Culture and Identity (PMCI)
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This book explores popular music in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism, in countries such as Poland, Hungary, Yugoslavia, Romania, Czechoslovakia, the GDR, Estonia and Albania. It discusses the policy concerning music, the greatest Eastern European stars, such as Karel Gott, Czesław Niemen and Omega, as well as DJs and the music press. By conducting original research, including interviews and examining archival material, the authors take issue with certain assumptions prevailing in the existing studies on popular music in Eastern Europe, namely that it was largely based on imitation of western music and that this music had a distinctly anti-communist flavour. Instead, they argue that self-colonisation was accompanied with creating an original idiom, and that the state not only fought the artists, but also supported them. The collection also draws attention to the foreign successes of Eastern European stars, both within the socialist bloc and outside of it.
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Table of contents (14 chapters)
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Front Matter
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State Policies and its Interpretation by Grassroots
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The Function of ‘Gatekeepers’
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Reviews
“This collection represents a multidisciplinary examination of popular music in Eastern Europe during the period of state socialism. By exploring the music of these countries with an internal focus, rather than in a simplistic relation to Western popular culture and the Western imagination, the role of the DJ, of stars, of journalism, of language and technology, as well as politics and youth culture are explored in relation to national politics and culture, between nations and between cultures. What emerges is a series of detailed explorations of music in individual contexts that collectively draw attention to the complexities and nuances of popular music production and consumption in the Eastern Bloc.” (Simon Poole, Falmouth University, UK)
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Bibliographic Information
Book Title: Popular Music in Eastern Europe
Book Subtitle: Breaking the Cold War Paradigm
Editors: Ewa Mazierska
Series Title: Pop Music, Culture and Identity
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1057/978-1-137-59273-6
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan London
eBook Packages: Literature, Cultural and Media Studies, Literature, Cultural and Media Studies (R0)
Copyright Information: The Editor(s) (if applicable) and The Author(s) 2016
Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-137-59272-9Published: 04 January 2017
Softcover ISBN: 978-1-349-95512-1Published: 12 July 2018
eBook ISBN: 978-1-137-59273-6Published: 21 December 2016
Series ISSN: 2634-6613
Series E-ISSN: 2634-6621
Edition Number: 1
Number of Pages: XI, 311
Number of Illustrations: 16 b/w illustrations
Topics: European Culture, Music, Russian, Soviet, and East European History, Journalism, Cultural Policy and Politics
