Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism

Part I: Introduction

1. Contextualising research on the Eastern European music industries

Patryk Galuszka

2. Creating a market economy in Eastern Europe: Economic reform as the central theme of the transition

Tomasz Legiedz

Part II: Russia

3. Piracy as an institutionalised social practice in Soviet and post-Soviet Russia

Marco Biasioli

4. 'We have no music industry!' Exploring the context of post-Soviet music making through the lens of contemporary Swedo-Russian collaborations

Ingrid M Tolstad

Part III: Central Europe

5. Socialist riches to capitalist rags: The disintegration of the GDR music industry during German reunification

Sven Kube

6. Collective management of copyright during communism and transition - A case study of the Society of Authors ZAiKS

Anna Pluszynska

7. The National Festival of Polish Song in Opole: The transformation of legal, economic, and political circumstances over fifty years of the Polish music industry

Katarzyna Korzeniewska

8. Pohoda: the importance of Slovakia's greatest festival

Peter Barrer

9. Managing the Eastern European position in the digital era: music industry showcase events and popular music export in Hungary

Emilia Barna

Part IV: Southeast Europe

10. The Romanian music scene: The social economy of pop music in the post-socialist period

Elena Trifan

11. Come visit (our past) again: How municipalities encourage retro rock culture on the Bulgarian music scene

Gergana Rayzhekova

12. The Yugoslav and post Yugoslav alternative rock canon presented in the music press

Julijana Papazova