Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment

Antje Dietze is a researcher in the Collaborative Research Center "Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition" at Leipzig University, Germany. Her main areas of interest include transnational, transregional, and urban history, Cold War and post-socialist cultures, cultural transfers, and the media and entertainment industries. Alexander Vari is Professor of History at Marywood University in Scranton, USA. He has written on the history of urban tourism, nationalist mythmaking, and popular culture in Budapest and Paris, and is one of the co-editors of Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945–1989 (2013).

Part 1: Mobilities, Networks, and Cultural Transfers

1. Mobilities and National Indifference: Popular Entertainment in Habsburg Central Europe around 1900

Susanne Korbel

2. A Cosmopolitan Music City: Early Twentieth-Century Transnational Networks in Vyborg

Nuppu Koivisto-Kaasik and Saijaleena Rantanen

3.Transnational Factors in the Shaping of the Early Greek Cinema Business, 1896–1908

Eliza Anna Delveroudi

4. The Rise and Fall of a Theater King: Albert Ranft and the Commercialization of the Swedish Theater Field between the 1890s and 1920s

Rikard Hoogland

5. From Ambivalence to the Diseuse Craze: French-Hungarian Cultural Exchanges Through Chanson, 1880s–1930s

Alexander Vari

Part 2: Social Impacts, Official Regulations, and Nation Building

6. Madrid Nightlife and Popular Leisure: Between Globalizing Cosmopolitanism and Social Transgression, 1900s to the 1930s

Rubén Pallol Trigueros and Cristina de Pedro Álvarez

7. Popular Culture and Cultural Policies and Narratives in Interwar Yugoslavia

Ivana Vesić

8. Jazzy, ‘Gypsy’, and Jolly: In Search of a Formula for Polish Popular Music in the Interwar Period

Anna G. Piotrowska

9. Constan Town Sounds: Multidirectional Movement of Early Jazz in the 1920s

G. Carole Woodall

10. The Reception of Jazz in Iceland in the 1920s and 1930s: Transnational Anxieties, Nation-Building, and Race

Ólafur Rastrick