Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany 9780520920088

Table of contents :
Contents
Figures
Acknowledgments
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. American Culture in East and West German Reconstruction
2. The Wild Ones The 1956 Youth Riots and German Masculinity
3. Lonely Crowds and Skeptical Generations Depoliticizing and Repoliticizing Cultural Consumption
4. Jazz and German Respectability
5. Presley, Yes-Ulbricht, No? Rock 'n' Roll and Female Sexuality in the German Cold War
Epilogue: Building Walls
Notes
Bibliography
Index

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Jazz, Rock, and Rebels

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Jazz, Rock, and Rebels Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany UTA G. POIGER

University BERKELEY

of California Press LOS ANGELES

LONDON

University of California Press Berkeley and Los Angeles, California University of California Press, Ltd. London, England © 2000 by the Regents of the University of California

Portions of chapters 2 and 5 have appeared previously in somewhat different form as "Rebels With a Cause? American Popular Culture, the 1956 Youth Riots, and New Conceptions of Masculinity in East and West Germany," in The American Impact on Postwar Germany, ed. Reiner Pommerin, 93-124 (Providence, R. 1.: Berghahn Books, 1995) and "Rock 'n' Roll, Female Sexuality, and the Cold War Battle over German Identities," Journal of Modern History 68 (September 1996): 577-616. Not in all cases was it possible to locate the holders of copyrights for illustrations.

Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Poiger, Uta G., 1965Jazz, rock, and rebels: cold war politics and American culture in a divided Germany p. cm. - (Studies on the history of society and culture; 35) Includes bibliographical references and index. ISBN 978-o-520-2II39-I 1. Germany-Civilization-American influence. 2. Popular culture-Germany. 3. Popular culture-Germany (East) 4. Subculture-Germany. 5. Subculture-Germany (East) 6. Race relations-Germany-History. 7. Art and state-Germany. 8. Art and state-Germany (East) 9. Youth-Germany-Social conditions20th century. I. Title. II. Series. DD258.6.P65 2000 99-3455 8 943-dc21 CIP Manufactured in the United States of America 08 10

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