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Jazz, rock, and rebels [[electronic resource] ] : cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany / / Uta G. Poiger



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Autore: Poiger Uta G. <1965-> Visualizza persona
Titolo: Jazz, rock, and rebels [[electronic resource] ] : cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany / / Uta G. Poiger Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: Berkeley, Calif., : University of California Press, c2000
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (348 p.)
Disciplina: 943
Soggetto topico: Popular culture - Germany
Popular culture - Germany (East)
Subculture - Germany
Subculture - Germany (East)
Art and state - Germany
Art and state - Germany (East)
Youth - Germany - Social conditions - 20th century
Soggetto geografico: Germany Race relations History
Germany Civilization American influences
Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references (p. 273-312) and index.
Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- List of Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. American Culture in East and West German Reconstruction -- 2. The Wild Ones The 1956 Youth Riots and German Masculinity -- 3. Lonely Crowds and Skeptical Generations Depoliticizing and Repoliticizing Cultural Consumption -- 4. Jazz and German Respectability -- 5. Presley, Yes-Ulbricht, No? Rock 'n' Roll and Female Sexuality in the German Cold War -- Epilogue: Building Walls -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: Jazz, rock, and rebels  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 9786613520265
1-280-08571-1
0-520-92008-2
1-59734-691-8
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910450594303321
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Serie: Studies on the history of society and culture ; ; 35.