Melissa Elliot at Wheaton is the best collaborator! She and I just co-published an article on East German music videos in the recent issue of the #GermanStudies Review - Yes all of your favorites! - and don't forget the Hungarian band Omega that Kanye West sampled! Who knew! Check it out -
"The East German Disco Film: An Intermedial Approach to the GDR’s Imagined (Musical) Futures" http://doi.org/10.1353/gsr.2023.0037 https://muse.jhu.edu/article/897323 #GermanStudiesAssociation #DEFA #ProgressFilm #DEFAFilmLibrary #marianaivanova @guyintheblackhat