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Title Jazz and totalitarianism / edited by Bruce Johnson ; with advisory editors, Pedro Cravinho and Heli Reimann.
Publisher New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.


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Description xviii, 364 pages ; 24 cm.
ISBN 9781138887817 hardback
1138887811 hardback
9781138887824 paperback
113888782X paperback
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Jazz and fascism : contradictions and ambivalences in the diffusion of jazz music under the Italian fascist dictatorship (1925-1935) / Marilisa Merolla -- Jazz in Moscow after Stalinism / Rüdiger Ritter -- Four spaces four meanings : narrating jazz in late-Stalinist Estonia / Heli Reimann -- Jazz in Poland : totalitarianism, Stalinism, socialist realism / Igor Pietraszewski -- Jazz in socialist Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s / Wolf-Georg Zaddach -- Trouble with the neighbours : jazz, geopolitics, and Finland's totalitarian shadow / Marcus O'Dair -- Performing the "anti-Spanish" body : jazz and biopolitics in the early Franco regime (1939-1957) / Iván Iglesias -- "The purest essence of jazz" : the appropriation of blues in Spain during Franco's dictatorship / Joseph Pedro -- Jazz and the Portuguese dictatorship before and after WWII : from moral panic to suspicious acceptance / Pedro Roxo -- A kind of "in-between" : jazz and politics in Portugal (1958-1974) / Pedro Cravinho -- A climbing vine through concrete : jazz in 1960s Apartheid South Africa / Jonathan -- "Fanfare for the warriors" : jazz, education, and state control in 1980s South Africa and after / Mark Duby -- From the 'Sultan' to the 'Persian side' : jazz in Iran and Iranian jazz since the 1920s / Gay Breyley -- On the marginality of contemporary jazz in China : the case of Beijing / Adiel Portugali -- Afterword : conclusions / Bruce Johnson.
Series Transnational studies in jazz.
Library Class Music F80
Subject Jazz -- Political aspects -- History -- 20th century.
Totalitarianism and music.
Jazz -- History and criticism.
Other Author Johnson, Bruce, 1943- editor.
Cravinho, Pedro, editor.
Reimann, Heli, editor.

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