Going underground. The position of the underground community in the Czech society in the 1970s and 1980s and the specific values of the underground culture Cover Image

Podzemí a underground. Postavení undergroundové komunity v české společnosti 70. a 80. let a specifické hodnoty undergroundové kultury
Going underground. The position of the underground community in the Czech society in the 1970s and 1980s and the specific values of the underground culture

Author(s): Martin Machovec
Subject(s): Music, Sociology of Culture, History of Communism
Published by: Ústav pro studium totalitních režimů
Keywords: Charter '77; Czech Rock Music; Czech Samizdat;

Summary/Abstract: The term “underground” has not been entirely unequivocal in Czech culture. However, it has traditionally been used to refer to the community that grew up around the rock band »The Plastic People« of the Universe in the 1970s. That community, which soon became part of the dissent and identified to a considerable degree with the people around Charter 77, consisted of poets, musicians and visual artists, as well as philosophers, essayists and samizdat publishers with markedly different orientations and places on the political spectrum, ranging from ultra-leftist radicals to millenarians to Christian traditionalists.

  • Issue Year: IX/2015
  • Issue No: 01
  • Page Range: 4-13
  • Page Count: 10
  • Language: Czech