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Author Hagen, Trever, author.

Title Living in the merry ghetto : the music and politics of the Czech underground / Trever Hagen
Published New York, NY : Oxford University Press, [2019]
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Description 1 online resource (xvii, 177 pages) : illustrations
Contents The underground cultural ecology -- From socialist realism to the Prague Spring -- Assembling the Merry Ghetto -- Creativity, establishment, and the self -- Human rights, prison, and amplifiers -- Generating new waves -- Underground is life -- Getting by together
Summary Living in the Merry Ghetto is a new look at illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism. 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes Online resource; title from web page (Oxford Scholarship Online, viewed on March 27, 2020)
Subject Rock music -- Political aspects -- Czechoslovakia
Rock music -- Social aspects -- Czechoslovakia
Music and state -- Czechoslovakia
MUSIC -- Instruction & Study -- Theory.
Music and state
Rock music -- Political aspects
Rock music -- Social aspects
Czechoslovakia
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2018046777
ISBN 9780190263881
0190263881
9780190948887
0190948884
9780190263874
0190263873