Description
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.
CONTENTS
List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Nicknames and diminutives
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter One: The Underground Cultural Ecology
Chapter Two: From Socialist Realism to the Prague Spring
Chapter Three: Assembling the Merry Ghetto
Chapter Four: Creativity, Establishment and the Self
Chapter Five: Human Rights, Prison & Amplifiers
Chapter Six: Generating New Waves
Chapter Seven: Underground is Life
Chapter Eight: Getting By Together
Bibliography
References
Index
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