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

Contents

• 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