Pop culture in Nazi-USA Cold War World

So,lets say that Germany manages to mane peace with the Soviet Union by 1943 and gets everything west of the Volga, but then gets into a Cold War with USA after kicking the Allies out of Italy and crushing Overlord (if the Allies carry on with it). Meanwhille Japan occupies the Russian Far East (more or less Primorsky and Sakhalin and the south of Kamchatka) and set a puppet government there. An armistice is carried out between the Allies and Germany by 1944. Japan gets nuked, but she doesn't surrender 'cause she still had Manchuria and Korea and bits of China (the USSR is in too much turmoil to do anything). Finally the Allied Forces invade Japan (and Korea, part of the Russian Far East and Manchuria). After a bit Chiang also win the civil war against Mao (lets say by 1949-1950), and goes a bit fascist and authoritarian (actually not nazi, more or less like Francoist Spain in OTL). China also lost Sinkiang, that is under (very precarious) Soviet ocupation. Korea is under one (more or less democratic) government. The former Soviet Union is divided into the USSR properly (with capital in Omsk, and controlling Central Asia (and Sinkiang) and part of Russia), the Siberian Democratic Republic ( controlling, as the name says, Siberia) and the Far East Republic, that still exists despite being a Japanese puppet in the past (now is an American one). USA also occupies the Sakhalin, the Kurils and the part of Kamchatka that Japan occupied before ( in theory this occupation will end when the situation of chaos in the former USSR ends). Mongolia aso occupies the zone of the lake Baikal and Tuva. There is also a Russian Empire in the zone between Siberia, the USSR and Mongolia, whose Queen claims being Anastasia Romanov.

Yes, I know it's all a bit messy, but I'm doing some maps that I'll upload when i end working with them ao you can see the World Situation more easily.
Ah, and I forgot to say that the date is 1955.
And also that the Holocaust was less effective in this timeline, 'cause a lot of Jews fled to America when USA invited them to come and settled them in Alaska (a la Yiddish Policemen Union).


How will be, for example, the music in this world? And movies? Books? I'm interested in Germany, but also the rest of the world. How will be post-war Britain?. And USA? How will Japan be left after a more prolonged WW2, and possibly a more extended nuclear bombardment?
Also, at what year do you think Japan have had surrender given the fact that is in a much stronger position and have a lot more of territory?
 
Putting aside the plausibility of the OP scenario entirely -- which is entirely appropriate for discussion purposes, BTW -- I can give the following thoughts:
  • One key thing to emerge from this is that, with the "Cold War" being against "right wing" fascism instead of "left wing" communism, the populist bent of pop culture in the 1930's may very well carry over into the 1950's (with the careers of the likes of Charlie Chaplin, Frank Capra, and others continuing to flourish).
  • If Rock Music still emerges in the US in the 1950's, the travels to Britain (which I'll assume are US Allied against Germany) and Nazi dominated Europe are... different.
  • European Cinema won't be inundated with American films, but with German ones; also, TTL likely won't see Italian Neorealism, which will have serious impacts just on its own.
  • With European film seriously curbed, theater can do a lot better.
  • If the Empire of Japan is still standing, that will seriously hurt the exchange of culture it and the west saw in OTL's latter 20th and 21st Centuries; so no Westerns influencing Kurosawa, no Anime and Manga finding larger audiences in the West ,etc. ( :( )
 
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I think Japan will meet the same fate of having two cities nuked. So we can still see Godzilla in the picture... thank god and that would make some of the movies interesting (more serious ones).

German cinema may become a contender to Hollywood. I can still see a possibility for the Beatles to arise and I can see Rock still coming about, anything could happen and a different King of Rock and Roll may come around. Unless there is a Vietnam like proxy war, the hippi culture may not be as big and especially the music may take a different turn. Just as long as the Allman Brothers come about.

Disney would still be around of course.

This isn't pop culture, but I can see us keeping Cuba under influence, so Las Vegan may not become what it is and that could impact future movies and music.
 
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