Introduction: Popular music and space in post-war German history
Brown, Timothy Scott Hayton, Jeffrey P. Sneeringer, Julia
Brown, Timothy Scott
Hayton, Jeffrey P.
Sneeringer, Julia
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2017-05
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BROWN, T., HAYTON, J., & SNEERINGER, J. (2017). Introduction: Popular Music and Space in Post-War German History. Contemporary European History, 26(2), 311-312
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Scholars are increasingly turning to rock'n’roll and its many genres as a means of exploring the recent past. What is electrifying about popular music in all its myriad forms is that it becomes a channel for rethinking social relations and affective communities (those held together by emotional ties) in the post-war period. These new identities and unconventional groupings exploded onto national societies, and their emancipatory programmes and inventive scenes drove democratisation. Societal responses to rock'n’roll indicate that popular music and the spaces where it manifested were highly contested, confrontations that enable scholars to reconsider historical narratives from alternative perspectives. Perhaps most importantly, as an expressive genre both driving and recording change, popular music is uniquely positioned to initiate and then document, through its material output, the efforts by individuals to alter everyday life and, as such, is an ideal vehicle for exploring the tremendous transformations that society has undergone in the post-war era.
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Cambridge University Press
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Contemporary European History;v.26:no.2
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