Overview

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history. Studies on the history of urban popular culture and the entertainment industries increasingly engage with the European or global circulation of genres, actors, and shows, especially during the period of massive growth and expansion of the sector from the 1870s to the 1930s. Nevertheless, a large part of this research remains focused on exchanges between Western and Central European, and North American metropolises. To provide a fuller picture of the emergence and cross-border transfer of different genres of popular culture, this volume investigates Northern, East Central, and Southern European cities and their relations with each other and the West. The authors analyze the mediating agents, transnational networks, and local responses to new forms of entertainment from Madrid to Vyborg, and from Istanbul to Reykjavík. These examples re-focus the history of urban popular culture in Europe in view of multidirectional transfers and a wider range of regional experiences. Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment will appeal to researchers and students alike interested in the history of popular culture in modern societies, particularly those studying urban centers in Europe, and their transnational and transregional connections.

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Author:   Antje Dietze (University of Leipzig, Germany) ,  Alexander Vari (Marywood University, USA)
Publisher:   Taylor & Francis Ltd
Imprint:   Routledge
Weight:   0.580kg
ISBN:  

9781032161839

ISBN 10:   1032161833
Pages:   326
Publication Date:   09 December 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

Part 1: Mobilities, Networks, and Cultural Transfers 1. Mobilities and National Indifference: Popular Entertainment in Habsburg Central Europe around 1900 Susanne Korbel 2. A Cosmopolitan Music City: Early Twentieth-Century Transnational Networks in Vyborg Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik and Saijaleena Rantanen 3.Transnational Factors in the Shaping of the Early Greek Cinema Business, 1896–1908 Eliza Anna Delveroudi 4. The Rise and Fall of a Theater King: Albert Ranft and the Commercialization of the Swedish Theater Field between the 1890s and 1920s Rikard Hoogland 5. From Ambivalence to the Diseuse Craze: French-Hungarian Cultural Exchanges Through Chanson, 1880s–1930s Alexander Vari Part 2: Social Impacts, Official Regulations, and Nation Building 6. Madrid Nightlife and Popular Leisure: Between Globalizing Cosmopolitanism and Social Transgression, 1900s to the 1930s Rubén Pallol Trigueros and Cristina de Pedro Álvarez 7. Popular Culture and Cultural Policies and Narratives in Interwar Yugoslavia Ivana Vesić 8. Jazzy, ‘Gypsy’, and Jolly: In Search of a Formula for Polish Popular Music in the Interwar Period Anna G. Piotrowska 9. Constan Town Sounds: Multidirectional Movement of Early Jazz in the 1920s G. Carole Woodall 10. The Reception of Jazz in Iceland in the 1920s and 1930s: Transnational Anxieties, Nation-Building, and Race Ólafur Rastrick

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Antje Dietze is a researcher in the Collaborative Research Center ""Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition"" at Leipzig University, Germany. Her main areas of interest include transnational, transregional, and urban history, Cold War and post-socialist cultures, cultural transfers, and the media and entertainment industries. Alexander Vari is Professor of History at Marywood University in Scranton, USA. He has written on the history of urban tourism, nationalist mythmaking, and popular culture in Budapest and Paris, and is one of the co-editors of Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945–1989 (2013).

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