Jazz, rock, and rebels : cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany
"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 and Elvis Presley reached young women and men 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. This pathbreaking study, the first comparative cultural history of the two Germanies, sheds new light on the legacies of Weimar and National Socialism, on gender and race relations in Europe, and on Americanization and the Cold War. Book jacket."--Jacket
Print Book, English, ©2000
University of California Press, Berkeley, Calif., ©2000
History
xiii, 333 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
9780520211384, 9780520211391, 0520211383, 0520211391
41445841
List of 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 1N 1 ROLL AND FEMALE SEXUALITY IN THE GERMAN COLD WAR EPILOGUE: BUILDING WALLS Notes Bibliography Index
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