Gertrud Pickhan is Professor of East-Central European History at the Institute for East European Studies at Freie Universität Berlin.
Rüdiger Ritter has graduated in History of East and East Central Europe and Musicology. Both conduct a research project at Freie Universität Berlin on Jazz under State Socialism.

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Contents: Gertrud Pickhan/Rüdiger Ritter: Introduction - Josef Jarab: Marching Regimes and Syncopating Drummers. The Stories of Jazz in Unfree Societies - John Gennari: The Other Side of the Curtain: U.S. Jazz Discourse, 1950s America, and the Cold War - Rüdiger Ritter: The Radio - a Jazz Instrument of its Own - Claire Levy: East and West in Dialogue. On the Intercultural Aspects of Jazz History - Yvetta Kajanová: Denotative Components of Jazz during the Period of Communism as Exemplified in Czech and Slovak Jazz - Martin Lücke: The Postwar Campaign against Jazz in the USSR (1945-1953) - Michael Abeßer: Between Cultural Opening, Nostalgia and Isolation - Soviet Debates on Jazz between 1953 and 1964 - Marta Domurat: The Jazz Press in the People's Republic of Poland. The Role of
Jazz
and
Jazz Forum
in the Past and Today - Piotr Baron: Development of «National styles» in Jazz after World War II. The Example of Polish Jazz - Igor Pietraszewski: Being a Jazz Musician in Poland - Tiit Lauk: Estonian Jazz Before and Behind the «Iron Curtain» - Heli Reimann: Lembit Saarsalu: «Music Saved Me.» The Study of a Jazz Musician's Early Musical Development - Ruth Leiserowitz: Jazz in Soviet Lithuania - a Nonconformist Niche - Gergo Havadi: An Individual Subculture Reflected in Domestic Spies' Reports. Hungarian Jazz in the Socialist Period - Adrian Popan: Jazz Revival in Romania 1964 -1971 - Peter Motycka: The
Jazz Section
- A Platform of Freedom in Czechoslovakia - Christian Schmidt-Rost: Freedom Within Limitations - Getting Access to Jazz in the GDR and PRP between 1945 and 1961 - Marina Dmitrieva: Jazz and Dress.
Stiliagi
in Soviet Russia and Beyond - Wiebke Janssen: «Don't knock the Rock!» «Halbstarke» in both German states during the 1950s - Karl Brown: Dance Hall Days. Jazz and Hooliganism in Communist Hungary, 1948-1956 - Michael Dörfel: Poetry and Jazz: The Records of «Jazz Meets Literature» in the GDR - Bert Noglik: «Jazz behind the Iron Curtain» - a Conference in Warsaw.