Meanings of Jazz in State Socialism

Gertrud Pickhan is a Professor of East Central European History at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin. Rüdiger Ritter holds a PhD in History of East and East Central Europe and Musicology. They have conducted a research project at the Freie Universität Berlin on Jazz under State Socialism.

• Contents: Gertrud Pickhan/Rüdiger Ritter: Introduction – Rüdiger Ritter: Jazz in State Socialism - a Playground of Refusal? – Christian Schmidt-Rost: 1956 - A turning point for the jazz scenes in the GDR and Poland – Marta Domurat-Linde: From «Jazz in Poland» to «Polish Jazz» – Igor Pietraszewski: Jazz Musicians in Post-War Poland – Gergő Havadi: Individualists, Traditionalists, Revolutionaries, or Opportunists? The Political and Social Constellations of Jazz in Hungary during the 1950s-1960s – Peter Motyčka: The Jazz Section: Disintegration through Jazz – Rüdiger Ritter: Negotiated Spaces: Jazz in Moscow after the Thaw – Heli Reimann: Swing Club and the Meaning of Jazz in Estonia in the late 1940s.