Jazz, Rock, and Rebels Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany

Name: Jazz, Rock, and Rebels Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany
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ISBN: 9780520211391

ISBN-10: 0520211391

ISBN-13: 9780520211391

Edition: 2000

Authors: Uta G. Poiger

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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…

Book details

List price: $31.95
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: University of California Press
Publication date: 3/3/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 346
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.90" tall
Weight: 1.232
Language: English



List of Figures


Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction



American Culture in East and West German Reconstruction



The Wild Ones: the 1956 Youth Riots and German Masculinity



Lonely Crowds and Skeptical Generations: Depoliticizing and Repoliticizing Cultural Consumption



Jazz and German Respectability



Presley, Yes--Ulbricht, No? Rock 'N' Roll and Female Sexuality in the German Cold War


Epilogue: Building Walls


Notes


Bibliography


Index