Samizdat, Tamizdat, and Beyond - 9780857455857

Samizdat, Tamizdat, and BeyondTransnational Media During and After Socialism\nAuthor(s): Friederike Kind-Kovcs, Jessie Labov\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Berghahn Books, United Kingdom\nImprint: Berghahn Books\nISBN-13: 9780857455857, 978-0857455857\nSynopsis\nIn many ways what is identified today as cultural globalization in Eastern Europe has its roots in the Cold War phenomena of samizdat (do-it-yourself underground publishing) and tamizdat (publishing abroad). This volume offers a new understanding of how information flowed between East and West during the Cold War, as well as the much broader circulation of cultural products instigated and sustained by these practices. By expanding the definitions of samizdat and tamizdat from explicitly political print publications to include other forms and genres, this volume investigates the wider cultural sphere of alternative and semi-official texts, broadcast media, reproductions of visual art and music, and, in the post-1989 period, new;