In the two decades after World War II, Germans on both sides of the iron
curtain fought vehemently over American cultural imports. Uta G. Poiger
traces how westerns, jeans, jazz, rock 'n' roll, and stars like Marlon
Brando or Elvis Presley reached adolescents in both Germanies, who
eagerly adopted the new styles. Poiger reveals that East and West German
authorities deployed gender and racial norms to contain Americanized
youth cultures in their own territories and to carry on the ideological
Cold War battle with each other. Poiger's lively account is based on an
impressive array of sources, ranging from films, newspapers, and
contemporary sociological studies, to German and U.S. archival
materials.
Jazz, Rock, and Rebels examines diverging
responses to American culture in East and West Germany by linking these
to changes in social science research, political cultures, state
institutions, and international alliance systems. In the first two
decades of the Cold War, consumer culture became a way to delineate the
boundaries between East and West. This pathbreaking study, the first
comparative cultural history of the two Germanies, sheds new light on
the legacy of Weimar and National Socialism, on gender and race
relations in Europe, and on Americanization and the Cold War.
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