Taming rock music in communist states: Politicisation of Western popular culture in East Europe and mainland China
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2336825X211030426" target="_blank" >10.1177/2336825X211030426</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Taming rock music in communist states: Politicisation of Western popular culture in East Europe and mainland China
Original language description
A comparison of the former Eastern Bloc and China’s ways of dealing with the social implications of rock music as an alien cultural import from the West reveals significant analogies. The paper traces the process of politicisation of rock music and compares the two different cultural spaces by mapping each space’s state ideology, aesthetic traditions and identities, and discriminative political and economic tools used to marginalise rock. Here the term politicisation refers mainly to the polarisation between the communist regimes’ restrictive policies, and the attempts of the rock scenes to sustain their discriminating characteristics and relationship to protest. While in European communist states rock played a relevant subversive role, conversely, in China any ‘rocking’ of the state has largely been averted. The Chinese rock scene as an off-mainstream urban subculture has received less popular support than its counterpart in Europe and has also proved less politically significant. This comparative case study discusses the relationship between popular music and politics by tracing analogies and differences between the former Czechoslovakia, where the ideologisation and politicisation of rock reached the highest point in the Eastern Bloc, and contemporary China.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
50601 - Political science
Result continuities
Project
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Continuities
I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace
Others
Publication year
2021
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
New Perspectives
ISSN
2336-825X
e-ISSN
2336-8268
Volume of the periodical
29
Issue of the periodical within the volume
3
Country of publishing house
US - UNITED STATES
Number of pages
22
Pages from-to
272-293
UT code for WoS article
000672939100001
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85109665181