A People's Music

Jazz in East Germany, 1945-1990

Inbunden, Engelska, 2019

AvHelma Kaldewey

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A People's Music presents the first full history of jazz in East Germany, drawing on new and previously unexamined sources and vivid eyewitness accounts. Helma Kaldewey chronicles the experiences of jazz musicians, fans, and advocates, and charts the numerous policies state socialism issued to manage this dynamic art form. Offering a radical revision of scholarly views of jazz as a musical genre of dissent, this vivid and authoritative study marks developments in the production, performance, and reception of jazz decade by decade, from the GDR's beginning in the 1940s to its end in 1990, examining how members of the jazz scene were engaged with (and were sometimes complicit with) state officials and agencies throughout the Cold War. From postwar rebuilding, to Stalinism and partition, to détente, Ostpolitik, and glasnost, and finally to its acceptance as a national art form, Kaldewey reveals just how many lives jazz has lived.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2019-12-19
Mått159 x 234 x 20 mm
Vikt670 g
FormatInbunden
SpråkEngelska
SerieNew Studies in European History
Antal sidor340
FörlagCambridge University Press
ISBN9781108486187

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List of figures; Selected chronology; List of abbreviations; Introduction; 1. Jazz in Weimar and Nazi Germany, 1918–1945; 2. Jazz in the Soviet Zone, 1945–1949; 3. Jazz in the founding years of the GDR, 1949–1961; 4. Jazz behind the wall, 1961–1971; 5. The rise of new jazz, 1971–1979; 6. 'A national treasure': jazz made in the GDR, 1980–1990; Archival sources; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

'This is a book that stakes a claim to telling a new story about the GDR: the history of jazz and its complex relationship with the mechanisms of the state. I do not know of anything that does this, quite like this volume. Clear and wonderfully engaging, this draws on a wealth of new material, interviews, government documents, oral histories, archives of the secret police or Stasi, private holdings, and a huge range of visual records of the time. It is a fascinating read and a case study in the new historiographies to emerge out of the fallen socialist state.' Karen Leeder, University of Oxford