Jazz in Central and Eastern Europe as discussed by Jazz magazine (1956–1959)

Trudzik, Artur (1973– )

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Title: Jazz in Central and Eastern Europe as discussed by Jazz magazine (1956–1959)

Abstract:

In the age when the world was divided by an iron curtain and societies living under a communist government were kept isolated from their capitalist counterparts, there were still areas which could hardly be moulded into this polarized framework. I refer here to culture and art, and also music, which, despite the tireless efforts of governments, especially the so-called “people’s democracy” regimes, remained a bond integrating populations regardless of the prevailing social and political system. After the Second World War, access to “bourgeois” jazz in Eastern Europe was curtailed; however, the situation gradually started to change in the late 1950s. One example of this at least partial “opening to the West” was Jazz magazine, which tended to objectively comment on the evolution of syncopated music in the Eastern Bloc, allowing us to review how this genre was assimilated in particular countries.

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