This volume examines the transnational character of popular music since
the Cold War era to the present. Bringing together the
cross-disciplinary research of native scholars, Eastern European
Popular Music in a Transnational Context expands our understanding of
the movement of physical music, musicians and genres through the Iron
Curtain and within the region of Eastern Europe. With case studies
ranging from Goran Bregovic, Czeslaw Niemen, the reception of Leonard
Cohen in Poland, the Estonian punk scene to the Intervision Song
Contest, the book discusses how the production and reception of popular
music in the region has always been heavily influenced by international
trends and how varied strategies allowed performers and fans to acquire
cosmopolitan identities. Cross-disciplinary in nature, the
investigations are informed by political, social and cultural history,
reception studies, sociology and marketing and are largely based on
archival research and interviews.