Meanings of Jazz in State Socialism

Gertrud Pickhan is a Professor of East Central European History at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Rüdiger Ritter holds a PhD in History of East and East Central Europe and Musicology. They have conducted a research project at the Freie Universität Berlin on Jazz under State Socialism.

• Contents: Gertrud Pickhan/Rüdiger Ritter: Introduction Rüdiger Ritter: Jazz in State Socialism - a Playground of Refusal? Christian Schmidt-Rost: 1956 - A turning point for the jazz scenes in the GDR and Poland Marta Domurat-Linde: From Jazz in Poland to Polish Jazz Igor Pietraszewski: Jazz Musicians in Post-War Poland Gerg Havadi: Individualists, Traditionalists, Revolutionaries, or Opportunists? The Political and Social Constellations of Jazz in Hungary during the 1950s-1960s Peter Motyka: The Jazz Section: Disintegration through Jazz Rüdiger Ritter: Negotiated Spaces: Jazz in Moscow after the Thaw Heli Reimann: Swing Club and the Meaning of Jazz in Estonia in the late 1940s.