Session M44 - Global Trends in the Popular Culture and Nighttime Entertainment of European Cities, 1880s-1930s
Coordinators: Antje Dietze (adietze@uni-leipzig.de), Alexander Vari (vari@marywood.edu)
Read Session abstractThe role that dance halls, cabarets and variety theatres, and cultural imports like the cakewalk, tango and jazz played in the rise of a pan-European and global commercial popular culture, has been addressed either from the perspective of a single city or a comparison between Western and North American metropolises. Thus while London, Berlin, and Paris and their connections especially to New York have attracted scholarly attention, less is known about how other European cities like Lisbon, Barcelona, Milan, Rome, Vienna, Budapest, Belgrade, Bucharest, Athens, Cracow, St. Petersburg, Copenhagen and Stockholm, to mention just a few, have included both original genres and sources, and have been connected through their emerging nighttime entertainment industry to global trends within the sphere of urban popular culture.
With this in mind, this session aims to explore several sets of questions: What was the local impact of turn-of-the-century and interwar global popular cultural trends? Why were some popular culture genres that circulated from one geographic locale to another, more successful than others? Who were the agents of these cultural transfers, how were specific nighttime entertainment institutions connected to these global networks, and how, in return, did these agents and institutions influence global trends in urban popular culture? In addition to considering Western and Central European cities, this session aims to include analyses of the emergence of such global connections in urban centers located in Europe’s southern, northern and eastern regions. With the intention to complicate the analysis of the various late nineteenth and early twentieth century waves of cultural globalization affecting nighttime entertainment networks in Europe, the session also pays attention to local and inter-regional interactions within Europe as well as, in addition to the much-researched cultural exchanges with North America, to Latin American, Middle Eastern and Asian influences.Keywords: popular culture; urban studies; cultural transfers; nighttime entertainment
Thursday 30th August 2018
Sala Lauree 13.30-15.00, 15.30-17.00
PAPERS
Madrid nighttlife, between the cosmopolitanism and leisure globalization and social transgression
Cristina de Pedro Álvarez, Rubén Pallol Trigueros
Trends in the Popular Culture and Nighttime Entertainment of the Circumpolar Norway - Narvik 1900-1930
Steinar aas
„Busentempel statt Musentempel …“: Jews, Sex and Mobility in Vaudeville Entertainment between Budapest and Vienna circa 1900
Susanne Korbel
It's not ALWAYS about politics (is it?): popular culture and entertainment on the southern fringes of Austria-Hungary
Duga Mavrinac, Anja Iveković Martinis, Anita Sujoldžić
Cabaret and revue theatres of the Interwar period as an outpost of popular culture phenomena in Poland
Dorota fox, Aneta Głowacka
Prague in Lights: The Pleasures of Interwar Popular Night-life
Karla Huebner
Jazz in the Land of ‘O sole mio’: Social Impact and Cultural Agents in the 1920s-1940s
Camilla Poesio
Vienna Cabaret in South American Exile: Hugo Wiener's Project of Cultural Translation, 1938-1955
Frances Tanzer