Rozbor tematiky písní československého popu let 1962–1990 s přihlédnutím k problémové kategorii „normalizační pop“ Jan Blüml The study examines Czechoslovak pop from the 1960s to the 1980s on the basis of representative hit production. It looks at the characteristic features of the genre in its various historical phases and decades, paying more attention to pop of the crucial period of the advent of the so-called…
Louis Armstrong’s concerts in Prague in 1965. A springboard for Swiss producer Werner Schmid” Jiří Andrs The building of cultural dynamics of Czechoslovak post-stalinist era of the 1960s was interconnected to profitable production activities and restoring of ties to the West. Louis Armstrong’s series of performances in March 1965 became a milestone of this trend. Two key figures of the second half of…
Deset let v drážkách licenčních desek. Licenční politika československých hudebních vydavatelství 1965–1974 Petr Ferenc Music recordings of foreign provenance were available on the Czechoslovak market from 1948 to 1989 exclusively in the form of licensed titles issued by the state-owned enterprises Supraphon and, later, Opus. Previous attempts to summarise the licensing policy of both entities have been limited to…
Dvě disko generace. Československý pop pod vlivem disko horečky Jakub Machek Disco music and closely related discos became a significant phenomenon in the late socialist period. The virtually automatic hostility of communist authorities to new musical genres coming from the West did not apply to disco music. It thus became a music genre associated with the lifestyle of young…
Transformace československého hudebního průmyslu na počátku 90. let 20. století Ondřej Štěpánek The so-called Velvet Revolution in 1989 brought, among other social transformations, turbulent changes in the music industry. This study examines the changes in music publishing during the transition from the late state socialism of the second half of the 1980s to the post-socialism of the early…
Jiří KNAPÍK - Martin FRANZ a kol., Mezi pionýrským šátkem a mopedem. Děti mládež a socialismus v českých zemích 1948–1970, Academia, Praha 2018, 728 s., ISBN 978-80-200-2890-7 Jiří Andrs
Přemysl HOUDA, Normalizační festival: socialistické paradoxy a postsocialistické korekce, Praha 2019, 182 s., ISBN 978-80-246-4387-8 Martin Mejzr
Pavla JONSSONOVÁ, Devět z české hudební alternativy osmdesátých let, Karolinum, Praha 2019, 218 s., ISBN 978-80-246-4328-1 Jiří Andrs
Karel VESELÝ – Miloš HROCH, Všechny kočky jsou šedé. Hudba úzkosti, Paseka, Praha 2020, 307 s., ISBN 978-80-7637-101-9 Tomáš Kavka
