Introduction: Crossing National and Regional Borders in Eastern European Popular Music

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-24
Author(s):  
Ewa Mazierska ◽  
Zsolt Győri
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Eastern European

scholarly journals REVIEW I Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context

2021 ◽  
Vol 11 (2) ◽  
pp. 107-109
Author(s):  
Nico Thom
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Eastern European

Global English infiltrates Bulgaria

English Today ◽  
2001 ◽  
Vol 17 (4) ◽  
pp. 54-60 ◽  
Author(s):  
Jeffrey L. Griffin
Keyword(s):  
Second Language ◽  
World Wide Web ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Youth Culture ◽  
World Wide ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Global English ◽  
Web Advertising ◽  
European Nation ◽  
The World

Following his article ‘Global English invades Poland’ (ET50, Apr 97, Vol 13.2), the author explores the comparable impact of English on advertising in a second Eastern European nation.Global English continues its unchecked spread, not only as the second language of choice for more people than any other, but also as an infiltrator whose words creep into the fabric of other languages through such avenues as film, television, popular music, the World Wide Web, advertising and youth culture.

From Production to Consumption: The Socialist Realism/Personality Cult Divide in North Korean Popular Music

2020 ◽  
pp. 7-35
Author(s):  
Peter Moody
Keyword(s):  
Popular Music ◽  
Socialist Realism ◽  
The State ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Kim Il Sung ◽  
Korean Music ◽  
Personality Cult ◽  
National Heritage ◽  
Eastern European Countries ◽  
The Relationship

While several historical works have explored the notion of ‘communist consumption’ especially in regards to Eastern European countries, few have looked at the relationship between consumption and the personality cult in a place like North Korea where the state has tended to respond to material shortages with ideological campaigns. This paper uses the lens of popular music to re-conceptualize the notion of consumption as not simply about “how much one consumes” but instead “what kind of things one consumes” and the consequent relation to state objectives for the national economy and political control. From around the time of the state founding in 1948 to the mid-1960s, North Korean music was largely in line with transnational principles of socialist realism, stressing the utilization of local folk forms and the tying of them lyrically to messages of industriousness and socialist construction. However, from the late 1960s when the leadership personality cult kicked into high gear, music simultaneously embraced more outside forms of music while at the same time exhibiting lyrical themes that associated particular items and experiences with a new national heritage centered on exhortations to revere Kim Il Sung and members of his family. The result was a shift in emphasis from exhibiting virtue through production to promoting loyalty through practices of consumption, and this gave impetus to the light music genre in popular music.

scholarly journals On Authenticity and Popular Culture

2022 ◽  
pp. 242-250
Author(s):  
Fabio Bego
Keyword(s):  
Popular Culture ◽  
Popular Music ◽  
Preliminary Analysis ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Cultural Products ◽  
Current State ◽  
European Culture ◽  
State Of Research

In the review the author analyses Ewa Mazierska’s book Polish Popular Music on Screen (2020), which investigates the mutually entangled histories of Polish politics, cinema, TV, and music. Although it focuses on the Polish context, the general and theoretical observations that emerge from Mazierska’s analysis relate also to the broader former socialist Europe. Departing from Mazierska’s work, the author tackles the question of “(in)authenticity” in relation to popular culture. The word “authenticity” often appears in the text to express the critics’ opinions of cultural products, but it is not clearly defined. The review of Mazierska’s research starts with a preliminary analysis of the concept, which enables a transversal discussion of the data presented in the text. Then the author draws some conclusions about the current state of research on Eastern European culture by highlighting the limits and the potentials of the field.

Pragmatic Language Performance of Children Adopted Internationally

2019 ◽  
Vol 28 (2) ◽  
pp. 501-514
Author(s):  
Deborah A. Hwa-Froelich ◽  
Hisako Matsuo
Keyword(s):  
Social Communication ◽  
False Belief ◽  
Pragmatic Language ◽  
Eastern European ◽  
Language Performance ◽  
Emotion Identification ◽  
False Belief Understanding ◽  
Quasi Experimental ◽  
Pragmatic Communication ◽  
Eastern European Countries

Purpose Pragmatic language is important for social communication across all settings. Children adopted internationally (CAI) may be at risk of poorer pragmatic language because of adverse early care, delayed adopted language development, and less ability to inhibit. The purpose of this study was to compare pragmatic language performance of CAI from Asian and Eastern European countries with a nonadopted group of children who were of the same age and from similar socioeconomic backgrounds as well as explore the relationship among emotion identification, false belief understanding, and inhibition variables with pragmatic language performance. Method Using a quasi-experimental design, 35 four-year-old CAI (20 Asian, 15 Eastern European) and 33 children who were not adopted were included in this study. The children's pragmatic language, general language, and social communication (emotion identification of facial expressions, false belief understanding, inhibition) were measured. Comparisons by region of origin and adoption experience were completed. We conducted split-half correlation analyses and entered significant correlation variables into simple and backward regression models. Results Pragmatic language performance differed by adoption experience. The adopted and nonadopted groups demonstrated different correlation patterns. Language performance explained most of the pragmatic language variance. Discussion Because CAI perform less well than their nonadopted peers on pragmatic communication measures and different variables are related to their pragmatic performance, speech-language pathologists may need to adapt assessment and intervention practices for this population.

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