By Uta G. Poiger
Jazz, Rock, and Rebels examines diverging responses to American tradition in East and West Germany through linking those to adjustments in social technological know-how learn, political cultures, nation associations, and foreign alliance platforms. within the first 20 years of the chilly battle, client tradition turned the way to delineate the bounds among East and West. This pathbreaking learn, the 1st comparative cultural historical past of the 2 Germanies, sheds new mild at the legacy of Weimar and nationwide Socialism, on gender and race kin in Europe, and on Americanization and the chilly War.
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