Popular Music and Political Liberalization in the Eastern Bloc Dean Vuletic Abstract: During the Cold War, Eastern Bloc broadcasting organizations held the Intervision Song Contest (ISC) as an alternative to Western Europe’s Eurovision Song Contest (ESC). Staged in Czechoslovakia and Poland between 1964 and 1980, the ISC has usually been depicted in the popular media as merely a belated, fleeting …

Eastern European Working‐class Cultures Mimicry in Contemporary Hardbass Ondřej Daniel Abstract: In this chapter, I discuss the contemporary developments of hardbass, a predominantly Eastern European electronic dance music style that emerged at the turn of the first decade of the twenty‐first century in Russia and spread to different countries of the region and beyond. Specifically, I focus on de‐politicized and commodified hardbass …