Jazz and Totalitarianism

Introduction (Bruce Johnson)

Part I: Totalitarian Templates

1. Jazz and Fascism: Contradictions and Ambivalences in the Diffusion of Jazz Music under the Italian Fascist Dictatorship (1925-1935) (Marilisa Merolla)

2. Jazz in Moscow after Stalinism (Ruediger Ritter)

Part II: In the Soviet Shadow

3. Four Spaces, Four Neanings: Narrating Jazz in Late Stalinist Estonia (Heli Reimann)

4. Jazz in Poland: Totalitarianism, Stalinism, Socialist Realism (Igor Pietraszewski)

5. Jazz in Czechoslovakia during the 1950s and 1960s (Wolf-Georg Zaddach)

6. Trouble with the Neighbours: Jazz, Geopolitics, and Finland's Totalitarian Shadow (Marcus O'Dair)

Part III: Iberia - Spain

7. Performing the 'Anti-Spanish' Body: Jazz and Biopolitics in the Early Franco Regime (1939-1957) (Ivan Iglesias)

8. 'The Purest Essence of Jazz': The Appropriation of Blues in Spain during Franco's Dictatorship (Josep Pedro)

Part IV: Iberia - Portugal

9. Jazz and the Portuguese Dictatorship before and after the Second World War: From Moral Panic to Suspicious Acceptance (Pedro Roxo)

10. A Kind of 'in-between': Jazz and Politics in Portugal (1958-1974) (Pedro Cravinho)

Part V: Apartheid South Africa

11. A Climbing Vine through Concrete: Jazz in 1960s Apartheid South Africa (Jonathan Eato)

12. 'Fanfare for the warriors': Jazz, Education, and State Control in 1980s South Africa and After (Mark Duby)

Part VI: To the East

13. From the 'Sultan' to the Persian Side: Jazz in Iran and Iranian Jazz since the 1920s (G. J. Breyley)

14. On the Marginality of Contemporary Jazz in China: The Case of Beijing (Adiel Portugali)

15. Afterword: Conclusions (Bruce Johnson)