Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe

SUMARIO /// Introduction Popular Music and the Moving Image in Eastern Europe // Illustration, beautification, documentation and synaesthesia / Stalinist utopianism / The 1960s and 1970s: rock stars gain visibility / The 1980s: Music sells films, films sell music / The postcommunist period: nostalgia for the state socialist past / Structure and chapter description / Notes / Bibliography // 1 1968 Leftist Utopianism in The Young Girls of Rochefort and Hot Summer / Political modernism and the 1968 musical. The Young Girls of Rochefort – nostalgia for an egalitarian HollywoodHot Summer : dreaming of blue jeans and beaches / Curtain call / Notes / References // 2 Representing Modern Romania in the Musical of State Socialist Period / The Soviet model / The beginnings: the lively musicals of late 1950s, early 1960s / The musicals of the 'thaw' (1965-1971): a glamorous look / The mini-cultural revolution of 1971: the attack on celebrity culture / In search of originality: the musicals of the 1980s / Conclusions / Note / References // 3 Worlds that Never Were / Musicals and Eastern European cinemas. Tales from the 'long Sixties'Vinyl cultures / The song will not remain the same / Conclusion / Special note / Notes / References // 4 Pop Music, Nostalgia and Melancholia in Dollybirds and Liza, the Fox Fairy / Musical scenes as social scenes / Dollybirds and Liza : from nostalgia to melancholia / Recorded music as collective experience / Fetishism of recorded music / The girl with the old tape player / Conclusion / Special note / Notes / References // 5 When the Golden Kids Met the Bright Young Men and Women / Communist culture industry / Twin miracles: developments in popular music and film in the 1960s. Popular music and fi lm formMeanings and associations of popular music in film / Notes / Bibliography // 6 'Music isn't Music, Words aren't Words' / The concept of new sensibility / New sensibility: origins and philosophy and the agency of rock music / Staging dissensus / Staging identity crisis / The transgressive politics of the music video / Post sensibility: the afterlife of new sensibility / Conclusions / Special note / Notes / References // 7 Socialist Night Fever / Disco at the movies: visions of Travolta / Themes from the local dance floors / Sound from the local dance floors / Disco on the small screen. Boban Petrovi c´ 's TV PartyConclusion / Notes / References / Discography // 8 Disco Polo and Techno According to Maria Zmarz-Koczanowicz / Music documentaries in Poland / Zmarz-Koczanowicz: a liberal ironist / Hanky Panky : consumer as king / Love for a Vinyl Record: in search of musical and personal autonomy / Conclusion / Notes / References // 9 Musical Variations in Karpo Godina's Alternative Cinema / Karpo Godina and the Yugoslav context / Music in Godina's short films / Picnic on Sunday : a world of idyll and expectation / The Gratinated Brains of Pupilija Ferkeverk: the intangible world.