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Popular Culture and Subcultures of Czech Post-Socialism
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Popular Culture and Subcultures of Czech Post-Socialism

Listening to the Wind of Change
Edited By: Ondřej Daniel, Tomáš Kavka, Jakub Machek

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Explore Czech culture’s evolution after socialism. This volume reveals the diverse trajectories of popular culture and subcultures, showing what truly changed and what surprisingly endured from the late socialist era.

This book draws on wide range of inspirations to provide a well-balanced picture of the popular culture and subcultures of Czech post-socialism. What were the…
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This book draws on wide range of inspirations to provide a well-balanced picture of the popular culture and subcultures of Czech post-socialism. What were the continuities and discontinuities of the post-socialist popular culture, mentalities and society during the period of late state socialism? What were the different mechanisms of ‘creating the Other’ in popular culture and subcultures? This volume shows the diverse trajectories of the late socialist (and older national) cultural practices and the related set of values and beliefs in new transitory circumstances. Whereas many scholars emphasize the tendency to sustain in a more or less adapted form under the new circumstances, the chapters and case studies of this book demonstrate a slightly different, more nuanced development.

Ondřej Daniel received his PhD from the Institute of World History of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague, with specialization in post-socialism, nationalism, migration and popular culture. His dissertation was published as Rock or Turbofolk: The Imagination of Migrants from the Former Yugoslavia (2013). He is a founding member of the Centre for Study of Popular Culture.

Tomáš Kavka received his PhD from the Institute of Social and Economic History of the Faculty of Arts at Charles University in Prague in 2013, where he specialised in belle époque elitist and popular culture. He pursued parts of his curriculum in Bamberg, Vienna and Berlin. He is active as a cultural worker, and currently researches the cultural milieu of Czech small towns. Together with Ondřej Daniel and Jakub Machek, he co-edited a collection of essays entitled Popular Culture in Czech Space (2013).

Jakub Machek obtained a PhD in Social History from Charles University in Prague. He lectures in the Department of Media Studies at the Metropolitan University, Prague, and is a Research Fellow at Charles University, Prague, in the Department of Czech and Comparative Literature. His research projects deal with Czech popular culture from the end of the 19th century until today. He has co-edited several collections of essays, and is a member of the Centre for Study of Popular Culture.

JAN CHARVÁT, ADÉLA GJURIČOVÁ, STANISLAV HOLUBEC, PAVEL KOŘÍNEK, SUZANA KOS, JAKUB MACHEK, INA PÍŠOVÁ, JOSEF ŠVÉDA

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  • ISBN: 1-4438-1701-5
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-1701-1
  • Date of Publication: 2016-12-07

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  • ISBN: 1-4438-6925-2
  • ISBN13: 978-1-4438-6925-6
  • Date of Publication: 2016-12-07
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  • BIC: JFC, J, HB
  • BISAC: SOC022000, SOC053000, SOC002010, HIS054000, HIS010010, HIS037070
  • THEMA: JBCC, J, NH
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