Social and Political Aspects of Existence and Development of Independent Music Genres and Trends in the Czech Republic from the sixties until 1989
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(Miroslav Vaněk, Grant Agency of the ASCR, 2006-2008)
The project as submitted aims to increase our knowledge about the penetration of new music forms and genres — rock music in particular — into the Czech milieu, the local distribution and enrichment of such music by way of original production from the 1960s to 1989. The project’s priority is to look at how this type of music affected two or three generations of young people, how their style of life and their approach was affected under the conditions of a totalitarian regime that despised the existence and attempted to deny it by ideological arguments while attempting to limit these phenomena by means of power. The project also aims to specify how the development interconnected with the growing trends and tendencies of independent thinking and demonstration inside the younger generations of Czech society.
The project as submitted aims to increase our knowledge about the penetration of new music forms and genres — rock music in particular — into the Czech milieu, the local distribution and enrichment of such music by way of original production from the 1960s to 1989. The project’s priority is to look at how this type of music affected two or three generations of young people, how their style of life and their approach was affected under the conditions of a totalitarian regime that despised the existence and attempted to deny it by ideological arguments while attempting to limit these phenomena by means of power. The project also aims to specify how the development interconnected with the growing trends and tendencies of independent thinking and demonstration inside the younger generations of Czech society.
