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Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context: Beyond the Borders (Palgrave European Film and Media Studies)

Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context: Beyond the Borders (Palgrave European Film and Media Studies)

Ewa Mazierska (Editor), Zsolt Győri (Editor)
$126.49
Publication Date: July 25th, 2019
Publisher:
Palgrave MacMillan
ISBN:
9783030170332
Pages:
243
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Description

This volume examines the transnational character of popular music since the Cold War era to the present. Bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of native scholars, Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context expands our understanding of the movement of physical music, musicians and genres through the Iron Curtain and within the region of Eastern Europe. With case studies ranging from Goran Bregovic, Czeslaw Niemen, the reception of Leonard Cohen in Poland, the Estonian punk scene to the Intervision Song Contest, the book discusses how the production and reception of popular music in the region has always been heavily influenced by international trends and how varied strategies allowed performers and fans to acquire cosmopolitan identities. Cross-disciplinary in nature, the investigations are informed by political, social and cultural history, reception studies, sociology and marketing and are largely based on archival research and interviews.

About the Author

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies, at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music including, most recently, Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990-2015: A Cultural History (2019) and Sounds Northern: Popular Music, Culture and Place in England's North (2018). Mazierska's work is translated into over twenty languages. She is also principal editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema.Zsolt Győri is Assistant Professor at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He is the author of Films, Auteurs, Critical-Clinical Readings (2014) and has co-edited six volumes, including Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe with Ewa Mazierska (2018). He also serves as the associate editor of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.

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