Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context

1. Introduction: Crossing National and Regional Borders in Eastern European Popular Music, Ewa Mazierska and Zsolt Györi.- Part 1: Bringing Foreign Music to the European East.- 2. Loopholes in the Iron Curtain: Obtaining Western Music in State Socialist Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s, Adam Havlik.- 3. Quiet Fanaticism: The Phenomenon of Leonard Cohen's Popularity in Poland, Ewa Mazierska and Xawery Stanczyk.- 4. Authenticity and Orientalism: Cultural Appropriations in Polish Alternative Music Scene in the 1970s and 1980s, Xawery Stanczyk.- 5. Eastern Europe as Punk Frontier, Aimar Ventsel.- Part 2: Eastern European Music Crossing the Borders.- 6. Success, Failure, Splendid Isolation: Czeslaw Niemen's Career in Europe, Mariusz Gradowski.- 7. Yugo-Polish: The Uses of Yugoslav Music by Polish Musicians, Ewa Mazierska.- 8. Balkan High, Balkan Low: Music Production between Hybridity and Class Struggle, Slobodan Karamanic and Manuela Unverdorben.- Part 3: Liminal Spaces of Eastern European Music Festivals.- 9. The Intervision Song Contest: A Commercial and Pan-European Alternative to the Eurovision Song Contest, Dean Vuletic.- 10. Between Utopia and the Marketplace: The Case of the Sziget Festival, Zsolt Györi.- 11. A Tale of Two (Or #EverMore) Festivals: Electronic Music in a Transylvanian Town, Ruxandra Trandafoiu.

Ewa Mazierska is Professor of Film Studies, at the University of Central Lancashire, UK. She has published over twenty monographs and edited collections on film and popular music including, most recently, Popular Viennese Electronic Music, 1990-2015: A Cultural History (2019) and Sounds Northern: Popular Music, Culture and Place in England's North (2018). Mazierska's work is translated into over twenty languages. She is also principal editor of the journal Studies in Eastern European Cinema.
Zsolt Györi is Assistant Professor at the University of Debrecen, Hungary. He is the author of Films, Auteurs, Critical-Clinical Readings (2014) and has co-edited six volumes, including Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe with Ewa Mazierska (2018). He also serves as the associate editor of the Hungarian Journal of English and American Studies.