{"title":"The (New) Awakening of Soviet Jazz Culture in the 1960s","authors":"Heli Reimann","doi":"10.1080/03007766.2022.2123500","DOIUrl":null,"url":null,"abstract":"ABSTRACT Following the period of lowest political tolerance toward jazz from the late 1940s to the death of Stalin in 1953, Soviet jazz culture experienced gradual growth during Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw. This essay argues that the jazz awakening in the 1960s was part of the shestidesyatniki (Sixtiers) movement and that legalization of jazz took place within the frameworks of Soviet leisure activities and amateur culture. In addition, the growth of Soviet jazz was influenced by American jazz diplomacy during the 1950s and 1960s, represented by Willis Conover and his Jazz Hour and the tours of the Jazz Ambassadors.","PeriodicalId":46155,"journal":{"name":"POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY","volume":"45 1","pages":"467 - 485"},"PeriodicalIF":1.3000,"publicationDate":"2022-08-08","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":"0","resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":null,"PeriodicalName":"POPULAR MUSIC AND SOCIETY","FirstCategoryId":"1085","ListUrlMain":"https://doi.org/10.1080/03007766.2022.2123500","RegionNum":3,"RegionCategory":"艺术学","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":null,"EPubDate":"","PubModel":"","JCR":"0","JCRName":"MUSIC","Score":null,"Total":0}
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ABSTRACT Following the period of lowest political tolerance toward jazz from the late 1940s to the death of Stalin in 1953, Soviet jazz culture experienced gradual growth during Nikita Khrushchev’s Thaw. This essay argues that the jazz awakening in the 1960s was part of the shestidesyatniki (Sixtiers) movement and that legalization of jazz took place within the frameworks of Soviet leisure activities and amateur culture. In addition, the growth of Soviet jazz was influenced by American jazz diplomacy during the 1950s and 1960s, represented by Willis Conover and his Jazz Hour and the tours of the Jazz Ambassadors.
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Popular Music and Society, founded in 1971, publishes articles, book reviews, and audio reviews on popular music of any genre, time period, or geographic location. Popular Music and Society is open to all scholarly orientations toward popular music, including (but not limited to) historical, theoretical, critical, sociological, and cultural approaches. The terms "popular" and "society" are broadly defined to accommodate a wide range of articles on the subject. Recent and forthcoming Special Issue topics include: Digital Music Delivery, Cover Songs, the Music Monopoly, Jazz, and the Kinks. Popular Music and Society is published five times per year and is a peer-reviewed academic journal supported by an international editorial board.