New Chicks on the Bloc: Punk in the Communism
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Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
New Chicks on the Bloc: Punk in the Communism
Original language description
This chapter examines women’s participation in punk scenes in socialist Eastern Europe from the late 1970s to the 1980s, situating their creative practices within conditions of political repression, limited cultural exchange, and gendered constraints. Drawing on interviews, archival materials, and autoethnographic insights, the author maps female punk activity across Czechoslovakia, Yugoslavia, Estonia, and the USSR. The text highlights how women musicians negotiated the socialist “gender regime,” appropriated Western punk influences, and created autonomous spaces of expression despite censorship and infrastructural limitations. Through case studies (e.g., Dybbuk/Zuby nehty, Tožibabe, Ave Luna, Yanka Dyagileva), the chapter reframes punk as both a cultural and political practice, emphasizing everyday resistance, DIY ethics, and transnational imaginaries. It contributes to feminist music history by uncovering marginalized voices and challenging male-dominated narratives of Eastern European underground culture.
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
C - Chapter in a specialist book
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60101 - History (history of science and technology to be 6.3, history of specific sciences to be under the respective headings)
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Continuities
N - Vyzkumna aktivita podporovana z neverejnych zdroju
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Publication year
2025
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
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Book/collection name
Unearthing the Music Footnotes to Sonic Resistance in Non-democratic Europe (1950-2000)
ISBN
9783959055406
Number of pages of the result
26
Pages from-to
202-225
Number of pages of the book
624
Publisher name
Spector Books
Place of publication
Leipzig
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