Popular Music on the Radio in the Communist and Post-Communist Era
—The Issue of Continuity and Discontinuity Drawing on the Example of the Czech Situation
Popular Music on the Radio in the Communist and Post-Communist Era
—The Issue of Continuity and Discontinuity Drawing on the Example of the Czech Situation
Author(s): Jan Blüml, Petr ŠrajerSubject(s): Music, Political history, Social history, Sociology of Art, History of Art
Published by: Musica Iagellonica Sp. z o.o.
Keywords: popular music; radio; hit parades; communism; post-communism; Czechoslovakia; Czech Republic; culture politics;
Summary/Abstract: Through selected phenomena, the paper examines the role of popular music in the state-owned Czechoslovak Radio in the communist era and later in the first Czech private radio stations after 1989. Special attention is paid to the phenomenon of radio hit parades. These began to be broadcast in Czechoslovakia in the 1960s, and their founders were also significant in establishing the format in the context of the private media of the 1990s. The paper considers the development and changes in the role of popular music in radio broadcasting in a broader cultural and political context.
Journal: Musica Iagellonica
- Issue Year: 14/2023
- Issue No: 1
- Page Range: 15-25
- Page Count: 11
- Language: English