Aleš Opekar Czech Underground from the Musical Historical Point of View Aleš Opekar, "Czech Underground from the Musical Historical Point of View", Central European Journal of Contemporary Religion 4 (2, 2020): p. 5-34. The first part of the
article summarises and comments on the literature on the Czech music
underground. It proves that professional research of the phenomenon was
previously carried out by foreign authors, whose focus was mainly on the social
and political contexts in Eastern Europe. Memoirs and published interviews
predominated in the domestic reflection of the phenomenon. Theoretical studies,
including monographic treatises, appear only on an ongoing basis. However, the
underground is still more in the field of view of historians than
musicologists. This article also traces the changes in understanding the “underground”
category in the Czech environment. It leads to defining it compared to the “alternative
scene” and “grey zone” categories, which gradually gained a specific
significance in Czech public awareness in the 1970s and 1980s. The second part
of the article places the Czech musical underground in the context of the general
development of rock and popular music in Czechoslovakia in the 1970s and 1980s.
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