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Living in the Merry Ghetto
Living in the Merry Ghetto reframes how people use music to build resistance. Author Trever Hagen addresses the social context of illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism. He tells the story of a group of rock'n'roll musicians who went underground after 1968, building a parallel world from where they could flourish: the Merry Ghetto. The book examines the case of the Czech Underground and the politics of their music and their way of life, paying close attention to the development of the ensemble The Plastic People of the Universe. Taking in multiple political transitions from the 1940s-2000s, the story focuses on non-official cultural practices such as listening to forei...
Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context
This volume examines the transnational character of popular music since the Cold War era to the present. Bringing together the cross-disciplinary research of native scholars, Eastern European Popular Music in a Transnational Context expands our understanding of the movement of physical music, musicians and genres through the Iron Curtain and within the region of Eastern Europe. With case studies ranging from Goran Bregović, Czesław Niemen, the reception of Leonard Cohen in Poland, the Estonian punk scene to the Intervision Song Contest, the book discusses how the production and reception of popular music in the region has always been heavily influenced by international trends and how varied strategies allowed performers and fans to acquire cosmopolitan identities. Cross-disciplinary in nature, the investigations are informed by political, social and cultural history, reception studies, sociology and marketing and are largely based on archival research and interviews.
The Bulletin
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New Socialist
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Disident
Kniha Disident. Václav Havel (1936–1989) novináře Daniela Kaisera je pokusem o co nejkomplexnější politický životopis českého prezidenta, dramatika a disidenta, ohraničený výše uvedenými letopočty. Václav Havel se v tomto období postupně proměňuje z chlapce z komunisty pronásledované, ale celkem konformní podnikatelské rodiny v neústupného odpůrce Husákovy totality. Mezitím dosahuje světového úspěchu jako dramatik; šedesátá léta prožívá nejen jako permanentní večírek, ale i uprostřed intelektuálních diskusí a práce pro divadlo. Následuje sovětská okupace, léta strávená v ústraní, deprese, otevřený konflikt s komunistickou mocí, v...
