@misc{Marciniak2015, author = {Marciniak, Marta}, title = {Review: "Socialist Escapes. Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989"/ Cathleen M. Giustino, Catherine J. Plum, Alexander Vari. New York, Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2013. ISBN 978-0-85745-669-4}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1184}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-11845}, year = {2015}, abstract = {The editors of this volume have written on Central-Eastern European history before (i.e. Jewish Prague, antifascism in the GDR) and the contributors vary from PhD candidates to scholars teaching in the United States and Europe. They include David Tompkins, who published on the subject of music making and reception in Poland and the GDR in the Stalinist era and Mary Neuburger, co-editor of a volume about consumption in Cold War Eastern Europe.[1] The essays contained in this compilation reflect the diversity of their authors' interests and expertise and address a wide array of historical practices in countries of the Soviet bloc that enabled their citizens to create spaces of relative freedom within the confines of the regimes in which they lived. Interestingly enough, many of the authors point out how the regimes themselves, knowingly or inadvertently, provided these opportunities and tried to encourage or control them, depending on the local circumstances and the time period.}, language = {en} } @misc{Marciniak2014, author = {Marciniak, Marta}, title = {Review: "Subkultury w PRL. Op{\´o}r, kreacja, imitacja" / Mirosław Pęczak. Warszawa: Narodowe Centrum Kultury, 2013. ISBN 9788363631185}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-777}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-7779}, year = {2014}, abstract = {The latest book by Mirosław Pęczak is an overview of subcultures in the People's Republic of Poland. It came out in the same year as a study of the punk subculture in People's Poland and neighboring countries in the 1980s by Remigiusz Kasprzycki (Libron: Dekada buntu) as well as a related book on the subject of mainly British punk in the 1970s, England's Dreaming (Warsaw: Axis Mundi, March 2013). Pęczak's book is different from both. It is a monograph tackling seven subcultures and a host of related formations of late People's Poland. It is slightly surprising that in comparison with Kasprzycki's monumental 420 pages and Savage's 600, Pęczak's work spans about 180. The structure of Subkultury w PRL is as unique as its subject matter. The book is divided into chapters on all the major subcultures, ordered chronologically: from chuligani to punk, followed by one about the decline of People's Poland in the 1980s and the practices of the subculture-related phenomena, like Pomarańczowa Alternatywa. It is a good way to present these subcultures, because it underlines continuity, including their attitudes toward the regime and the different resources they each had in their symbolic or actual struggles against the system, whose attitude toward non-conformist cultural phenomena also evolved over time.}, language = {en} } @misc{Marciniak2015, author = {Marciniak, Marta}, title = {Review: "Composing the party line. Music and politics in early cold war Poland and East Germany" / David G. Tompkins. West Lafayette: Purdue University Press, 2013. ISBN 1557536473}, organization = {Digitale Wissenschaftsplattform Pol-Int (www.pol-int.org)}, doi = {10.11584/opus4-1238}, url = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:521-opus4-12388}, year = {2015}, abstract = {David Tompkins' Composing the Party Line is a unique work in that he undertakes a transnational comparative analysis of specific cultural aspects of the Stalinist period, namely the production, performance and reception of music, primarily classical and modern music, but also popular music like mass songs and entertainment combining music and spoken word. Unless the reader is already familiar with the history of Stalinism in Poland and the GDR, it is best to read this work with other books on the cultural history of the period.}, language = {en} }