Rock music in the German Democratic Republic during the 1970s

Project Report from the year 2007 in the subject Musicology - Miscellaneous, University of North Florida, language: English, abstract: Since the early 1950s, the East German leadership rejected the Anglo-American imperialist mass culture including its musical influences (Kirchenwitz 7). Western pop culture was seen as class enemy. Institutions monitored youth groups who met to listen to rock music...