A People's Music: Jazz in East Germany, 1945–1990 (New Studies in European Hist

A Peoples Music\nby Helma Kaldewey\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Helma Kaldewey\nTitle: A Peoples Music\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Popular music\nPublisher: Cambridge University Press\nPublication year: 2019\nISBN-13: 9781108486187\nISBN-10: 1108486185\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\nA People''s Music presents the first full history of jazz in East Germany, drawing on new and previously unexamined sources and vivid eyewitness accounts. Helma Kaldewey chronicles the experiences of jazz musicians, fans, and advocates, and charts the numerous policies state socialism issued to manage this dynamic art form. Offering a radical revision of scholarly views of jazz as a musical genre of dissent, this vivid and authoritative study marks developments in the production, perform.