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The longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human senses—and through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While propaganda reached targets through vision and hearing, sensory warfare also exploited taste, touch, smell, and pain. This volume is the first to explore the sensory aspect of the Cold War and how this warfare changed contemporary perception of the war. The authors highlight the global dimension of sensory warfare, examining battlegrounds around the world and across different phases of the conflict, including “cold” and “hot” warfare—both covert and overt. Case studies highlight the role of taste in Western food deliveries to Eastern Europe; olfaction in Poland, at the Iron Curtain, and in the Vietnam War; sonic warfare in Berlin, in Romania, and at the China-Taiwan “aquatic frontier”; vision in the Maoist Cultural Revolution, Spain, and the Soviet-Afghan war; haptics in the German military; and drugs, pain, and sensory deprivation in intelligence operations in both Hungary and the United States. In its wide-ranging treatment, this volume offers an illuminating new perspective on the Cold War and deepens our understanding of the sensory aspects of current and future conflicts. Sensory Warfare in the Global Cold War will be of interest to students and scholars of sensory studies, Cold War studies, twentieth-century history, and military history. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Cyril Cordoba, Mark Fenemore, Walter E. Grunden, Dayton Lekner, José Manuel López Torán, Markus Mirschel, Victoria Phillips, Carsten Richter, Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Christy Spackman, and Stephanie Weismann.

The longest political conflict of the twentieth century, the Cold War, was carried out on the human senses—and through them. Largely conducted through nonlethal methods, it was a war of competing cultures, politics, and covert operations. While propaganda reached targets through vision and hearing, sensory warfare also exploited taste, touch, smell, and pain. This volume is the first to explore the sensory aspect of the Cold War and how this warfare changed contemporary perception of the war. The authors highlight the global dimension of sensory warfare, examining battlegrounds around the world and across different phases of the conflict, including “cold” and “hot” warfare—both covert and overt. Case studies highlight the role of taste in Western food deliveries to Eastern Europe; olfaction in Poland, at the Iron Curtain, and in the Vietnam War; sonic warfare in Berlin, in Romania, and at the China-Taiwan “aquatic frontier”; vision in the Maoist Cultural Revolution, Spain, and the Soviet-Afghan war; haptics in the German military; and drugs, pain, and sensory deprivation in intelligence operations in both Hungary and the United States. In its wide-ranging treatment, this volume offers an illuminating new perspective on the Cold War and deepens our understanding of the sensory aspects of current and future conflicts. Sensory Warfare in the Global Cold War will be of interest to students and scholars of sensory studies, Cold War studies, twentieth-century history, and military history. In addition to the editor, the contributors to this volume include Cyril Cordoba, Mark Fenemore, Walter E. Grunden, Dayton Lekner, José Manuel López Torán, Markus Mirschel, Victoria Phillips, Carsten Richter, Andreea Deciu Ritivoi, Christy Spackman, and Stephanie Weismann.

Für das 20. Jahrhundert, das Jahrhundert der Jugend, umspannen die Begriffe ›Jugend – Musik – Bewegung‹ ein Feld, aus dem eine Fülle von Fragestellungen zur Beschreibung und Erklärung nicht nur musikalischer, sondern auch gesellschaftlicher Entwicklungen erwächst. Diese werden hier als Formierung und Mobilisierung gefasst. Dabei spielte die Musik für unterschiedliche Bewegungen stets eine wesentliche, nicht nur kultur-, sondern auch ideen- und politikhistorische Rolle. Die Entwicklungen in großer Bandbreite und über die Zäsuren des 20. Jahrhunderts hinweg abzustecken, ist das Ziel des vorliegenden Bandes. Der Zugriff ist dabei transdisziplinär: Die Beitragenden kommen aus der Geschichts-, Politik- und Musikwissenschaft, den Sound und Popular Music Studies sowie aus der Pädagogik.For the 20th century, often referred to as the century of young adults, concepts such as "youth – music – movement" describe a field from which various questions arise for describing and explaining both musical and social developments. Here, these concepts are defined as formation and mobilisation. Music has always played a key role for various movements, not only in terms of culture, but also in the history of ideas and politics. The aim of the present volume is to demonstrate the various developments in detail and to shed light on the caesuras it underwent during the 20th century. The approach is transdisciplinary: the contributors come from various disciplines such as history studies, political sciences, musicology, sound and popular music studies as well as pedagogy.