Urban Popular Culture and Entertainment: Experiences from Northern, East-Central, and Southern Europe, 1870s-1930s

This book is part of an ongoing transnational turn in cultural history.

Antje Dietze is a researcher in the Collaborative Research Center ＂Processes of Spatialization under the Global Condition＂ at Leipzig University, Germany. Her main areas of interest include transnational, transregional, and urban history, Cold War and post-socialist cultures, cultural transfers, and the media and entertainment industries.

Alexander Vari is Professor of History at Marywood University in Scranton, USA. He has written on the history of urban tourism, nationalist mythmaking, and popular culture in Budapest and Paris, and is one of the co-editors of Socialist Escapes: Breaking Away from Ideology and Everyday Routine in Eastern Europe, 1945-1989 (2013).