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Article: Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. (Reviews).
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- Journal of Social History
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- March 22, 2002
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Jazz, Rock, and Rebels: Cold War Politics and American Culture in a Divided Germany. By Uta G. Poiger (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2000. xiii, 333 pp.).
In this engaging book, Uta Poiger looks at the response of West and East German journalists, politicians, sociologists, and psychologists to the Americanization of German youth culture in the 1950s. Focusing on interpretations of Hollywood movies, jazz, and rock 'n' roll, Poiger dissects the class, gender, national, ethnic and racial anxieties that American cultural imports evoked. The book interweaves a richly-documented discourse analysis with evocative accounts of the excited, even riotous, ...