Titlebook: Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context; Beyond the Borders Ewa Mazierska,Zsolt Győri Book 2019 The Editor(s) (if applica

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Introduction: Crossing National and Regional Borders in Eastern European Popular Music,ll attention to the asymmetrical influences between Western and Eastern European music industries and the latter’s peripheral status during the state socialist and postcommunist periods. In addition to superior symbolic value associated with Anglo-American popular music (mainly pop-rock) another ove

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Loopholes in the Iron Curtain: Obtaining Western Music in State Socialist Czechoslovakia in the 1970ctions and border controls after the Soviet-led invasion in 1968, there were still several ways of obtaining Western music, including smuggling of records, relying on relatives living abroad, illegal music markets, copying of borrowed albums, listening to foreign radio and even visiting cultural ins

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Quiet Fanaticism: The Phenomenon of Leonard Cohen’s Popularity in Polandsation of Cohen’s songs, poems and sensibility by the artist’s fans. It focuses on both the quantitative and qualitative dimensions of Cohen’s Polish popularity. The first concerns the presence of Cohen’s music in the Polish music press, radio and television, and its circulation in its original form

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Eastern Europe as Punk Frontierlaws make touring relatively easy. With more than 10 years’ experience as a DIY concert promoter and freelance music journalist, the author argues that the punk ethos makes punk more accessible to bands from obscure regions such as Estonia or Romania. Additionally, Estonian bands have built up their

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Balkan High, Balkan Low: Pop-Music Production Between Hybridity and Class Struggle superstyle, and, on the other, the local pop-folk musical production in the Balkans themselves. Although both of these genres are characterised by similar features (hybridity, Oriental sounds, transnationalism), they actually create and express two parallel worlds. While Balkan world music has rece

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Between Utopia and the Marketplace: The Case of the Sziget Festival featuring both international super-productions and emerging local talent, the Sziget experience offered a window to global trends in an atmosphere resembling that of a giant house-party. This chapter examines the event’s internationalisation and the challenges this meant for its local fanbase of mi