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A Quickie Guide to Jazz Festivals in Eastern Europe

by Cyril Moshkow
April 7, 2004

The Jazz festival movement did not penetrate the Iron Curtain until the late 1950s, when some Communist regimes, trying to liberalize their public image, allowed many things that were not possible during Stalin's era: abstract art, modern dance, cinema with no propaganda message, and jazz music. Jazz Jamboree , the first major jazz festival ...