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Author : Daniel Elphick
Release : 2019-10-03
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 67X/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Music behind the Iron Curtain by : Daniel Elphick
Download or read book Music behind the Iron Curtain written by Daniel Elphick. This book was released on 2019-10-03. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Complements the ongoing revival of Mieczyslaw Weinberg's music and explains its unique blend of Polish and Soviet Russian influences.
Author : Gertrud Pickhan
Release : 2010
Genre : Jazz
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Book Rating : 727/5 ( reviews)
Book Synopsis Jazz Behind the Iron Curtain by : Gertrud Pickhan
Download or read book Jazz Behind the Iron Curtain written by Gertrud Pickhan. This book was released on 2010. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of essays by various authors.
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Release : 2009
Genre : Anti-communist movements
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Download or read book Rebel Waltz written by . This book was released on 2009. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Ewa Mazierska
Release : 2019-07-15
Genre : Music
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Book Synopsis Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context by : Ewa Mazierska
Download or read book Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context written by Ewa Mazierska. This book was released on 2019-07-15. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This volume examines the transnational character of popular music since the Cold War era to the present. Bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of native scholars, Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context expands our understanding of the movement of physical music, musicians and genres through the Iron Curtain and within the region of Eastern Europe. With case studies ranging from Goran Bregović, Czesław Niemen, the reception of Leonard Cohen in Poland, the Estonian punk scene to the Intervision Song Contest, the book discusses how the production and reception of popular music in the region has always been heavily influenced by international trends and how varied strategies allowed performers and fans to acquire cosmopolitan identities. Cross-disciplinary in nature, the investigations are informed by political, social and cultural history, reception studies, sociology and marketing and are largely based on archival research and interviews.
Author : Jaroslav Svelch
Release : 2023-09-19
Genre : Games & Activities
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Book Synopsis Gaming the Iron Curtain by : Jaroslav Svelch
Download or read book Gaming the Iron Curtain written by Jaroslav Svelch. This book was released on 2023-09-19. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Aside from the exceptional history of Tetris, very little is known about gaming culture behind the Iron Curtain. But despite the scarcity of home computers and the absence of hardware and software markets, Czechoslovakia hosted a remarkably active DIY microcomputer scene in the 1980s, producing more than two hundred games that were by turns creative, inventive, and politically subversive. In Gaming the Iron Curtain, Jaroslav Švelch offers the first social history of gaming and game design in 1980s Czechoslovakia, and the first book-length treatment of computer gaming in any country of the Soviet bloc. Švelch describes how amateur programmers in 1980s Czechoslovakia discovered games as a medium, using them not only for entertainment but also as a means of self-expression. Sheltered in state-supported computer clubs, local programmers fashioned games into a medium of expression that, unlike television or the press, was neither regulated nor censored. In the final years of Communist rule, Czechoslovak programmers were among the first in the world to make activist games about current political events, anticipating trends observed decades later in independent or experimental titles. Drawing from extensive interviews as well as political, economic, and social history, Gaming the Iron Curtain tells a compelling tale of gaming the system, introducing us to individuals who used their ingenuity to be active, be creative, and be heard.
