Jazz and Totalitarianism

Bruce Johnson formerly a professor in English, is now Adjunct Professor, Communications, University of Technology Sydney, Visiting Professor, Music, University of Glasgow, and Docent and Visiting Professor, Cultural History, University of Turku.

• Introduction (Bruce Johnson)Part I: Totalitarian Templates1. Jazz and Fascism: Contradictions and Ambivalences in the Diffusion of Jazz Music under the Italian Fascist Dictatorship (1925-1935) (Marilisa Merolla)2. Jazz in Moscow after Stalinism (Rüdiger Ritter)Part II: In the Soviet Shadow3. Four Spaces, Four Neanings: Narrating Jazz in Late Stalinist Estonia (Heli Reimann) 4. Jazz in Poland: Totalitarianism, Stalinism, Socialist Realism (Igor Pietraszewski) 5. Jazz in Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s (Wolf-Georg Zaddach)6. Trouble with the Neighbours: Jazz, Geopolitics, and Finland’s Totalitarian Shadow (Marcus O'Dair) Part III: Iberia - Spain7. Performing the ‘Anti-Spanish’ Body: Jazz and Biopolitics in the Early Franco Regime (1939-1957) (Iván Iglesias)8. ‘The Purest Essence of Jazz’: The Appropriation of Blues in Spain during Franco’s Dictatorship (Josep Pedro) Part IV: Iberia - Portugal9. Jazz and the Portuguese Dictatorship before and after the Second World War: From Moral Panic to Suspicious Acceptance (Pedro Roxo)10. A Kind of 'in-between': Jazz and Politics in Portugal (1958-1974) (Pedro Cravinho)Part V: Apartheid South Africa11. A Climbing Vine through Concrete: Jazz in 1960s Apartheid South Africa (Jonathan Eato) 12. 'Fanfare for the warriors': Jazz, Education, and State Control in 1980s South Africa and After (Mark Duby) Part VI: To the East13. From the 'Sultan' to the Persian Side: Jazz in Iran and Iranian Jazz since the 1920s (G. J. Breyley) 14. On the Marginality of Contemporary Jazz in China: The Case of Beijing (Adiel Portugali) 15. Afterword: Conclusions (Bruce Johnson)

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