Jazz, Rock, and Rebels
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american culture
american music
americanization
Author_Uta G. Poiger
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cold war
cultural history
east germany
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european history
gender studies
german history
germany
import
international
iron curtain
politics
postwar
postwar film
racial norms
racism
revolution
social studies
sociology
wartime
west germany
western world
world war 2
wwii
youth culture
Product details
- ISBN 9780520211391
- Weight: 544g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 03 Mar 2000
- Publisher: University of California Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who eagerly adopted the new styles. Poiger reveals that East and West German authorities deployed gender and racial norms to contain Americanized youth cultures in their own territories and to carry on the ideological Cold War battle with each other. Poiger's lively account is based on an impressive array of sources, ranging from films, newspapers, and contemporary sociological studies, to German and U.S. archival materials."Jazz, Rock, and Rebels" examines diverging responses to American culture in East and West Germany by linking these to changes in social science research, political cultures, state institutions, and international alliance systems. In the first two decades of the Cold War, consumer culture became a way to delineate the boundaries between East and West.
This pathbreaking study, the first comparative cultural history of the two Germanies, sheds new light on the legacy of Weimar and National Socialism, on gender and race relations in Europe, and on Americanization and the Cold War.
Uta G. Poiger is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Washington, Seattle.
