1st Edition

Eastern European Music Industries and Policies after the Fall of Communism From State Control to Free Market

Edited By Patryk Galuszka Copyright 2021
226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

226 Pages 1 B/W Illustrations
by Routledge

During the last thirty years Eastern Europe has been a place of radical political, economic, and social transformation, and these changes have affected the cultural industries of its countries. This volume consists of twelve chapters by  leading international researchers. Stories are documented of various organisations that once dominated the ‘communist music industries’ — such as... Read more

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 Pluszyńska

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

Emília 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

Biography

Patryk Galuszka is an associate professor in the Faculty of Economics and Sociology at the University of Lodz, Poland.