Popular Music in Communist and Post-Communist Europe: Jazz Under State Socialism

Jan Blüml has been working in the position of assistant professor at the Department of Musicology, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic since 2014. His main academic interest lies in the history of popular music in Central Europe with special emphasis on music in the former Czechoslovakia. Yvetta Kajanová is a Professor of Musicology at Comenius University in Bratislava, Slovakia. She is the author of ten monographs about jazz, rock, pop, and gospel music. Rüdiger Ritter is a historian of East Central Europe and musicologist. His scholarly interests include the role of jazz radio broadcasting in the Cold War, music history as cultural history in the 19th and 20th centuries, collective identity and politics related to the history in East Central Europe.