Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment - Experiences From Northern, East Central, Southern Europe, 1870s1930s

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.

List 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

About the author

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).

Summary

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.

Product details

• Authors: Antje (University of Leipzig Dietze
• Assisted by: Antje Dietze (Editor), Dietze Antje (Editor), Alexander Vari (Editor), Vari Alexander (Editor)
• Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 09.12.2022
• EAN: 9781032161839
• ISBN: 978-1-0-3216183-9
• No. of pages: 326
• Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > History > General, dictionaries; Social sciences, law, business > Social sciences (general); Modern history to 20th century: c 1700 to c 1900, Popular Culture, Europe, European History, HISTORY / General, HISTORY / Modern / General, HISTORY / Europe / General, 20th Century, HISTORY / Social History, Social & cultural history, c 1800 to c 1900, Later 19th century c 1850 to c 1899, Social and cultural history, Early 20th century c 1900 to c 1950, Urban communities, Industrialisation & Industrial History, Industrialisation and industrial history