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Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-73192-8 — A People's Music Helma Kaldewey Frontmatter More Information A PEOPLE’S MUSIC A People’s Music presents the first full history of jazz in East Germany, drawing on new and previously unexamined sources and eyewitness accounts. Helma Kaldewey chronicles the experiences of jazz musi- cians, fans, and advocates, and charts the numerous policies state socialism issued to manage this dynamic art form. Offering a radi- cal revision of scholarly views of jazz as a musical genre of dissent, this vivid and authoritative study marks developments in the pro- duction, performance, and reception of jazz decade by decade, from the German Democratic Republic’s beginning in the 1940s to its end in 1990, examining how members of the jazz scene were engaged with (and were sometimes complicit with) state officials and agen- cies throughout the Cold War. From postwar rebuilding, to Stalinism and partition, to détente, Ostpolitik, and glasnost, and finally to its acceptance as a national art form, Kaldewey reveals just how many lives jazz lived. helma kaldewey (Ph.D., Tulane University) is a musicologist, his- torian, longtime teacher, and researcher in the history of jazz. She has written and produced films about New Orleans’ music culture in partnership with German public media. © in this web service Cambridge University Press www.cambridge.org Cambridge University Press 978-1-108-73192-8 — A People's Music Helma Kaldewey Frontmatter More Information new studies in european history Edited by peter baldwin, University of California, Los Angeles christopher clark, University of Cambridge james b.
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