Karel Gott: The Ultimate Star of Czechoslovak Pop Music
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Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Karel Gott: The Ultimate Star of Czechoslovak Pop Music
Original language description
Karel Gott reached the status of a pop star in 1960s and maintained it till the present day. He was very popular not only in Czechoslovakia, but also in the whole Eastern bloc and German-speaking countries. In Czechoslovakia he served as a unique element of the official communist culture while enjoying popularity in Western Europe. The analysis explains Gott's stardom status as a case of structured polysemy. Communist propaganda appropriated certain symbolic features of his image and performance while his mainstream audience focused on his professionalism, entertaining qualities and uniqueness of being a 'Sinatra from the East'. The essay offers an analyses the chronological development of Gott's career, discussing the interplay between his public image, music production and cultural and political contexts.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
AJ - Literature, mass media, audio-visual activities
OECD FORD branch
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Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
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Publication year
2016
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Popular Music in Eastern Europe: Breaking the Cold War Paradigm
ISBN
978-1-137-59272-9
Number of pages of the result
25
Pages from-to
217-241
Number of pages of the book
311
Publisher name
Palgrave Macmillan
Place of publication
London
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