Charting Post-Underground Nostalgia: Anachronistic Practices of the Post-Velvet Revolution Rock Scene

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Jazyk výsledku

angličtina

Název v původním jazyce

Charting Post-Underground Nostalgia: Anachronistic Practices of the Post-Velvet Revolution Rock Scene

Popis výsledku v původním jazyce

The 1990s music scene in East-Central Europe has often been described as a melting pot of various genres wherein different official and unofficial musicians from the socialist era merged with all kinds of contemporary Western impulses. This begs the question: did all those new influences necessarily lead to a change of taste and expectations among audiences or even to a change in the music industry’s policies? In contrast to the popular narrative of the dynamic post-Velvet Revolution transformation of culture and society, this article offers a contrasting view of a particularly anachronistic tendency that unfolded during the transition, the mover of which was a conservative post-underground audience that longed much less for novelty than for continuity and survival of the cultural and aesthetic patterns of the normalization period. Following a case study of the Czech alternative rock band Psí vojáci (Dog Soldiers) and pointing out several paradoxes that framed and determined its musical production and reception, the goal of the essay is to examine the socio-cultural mechanisms underlying the anachronistic and nostalgic stance that substantially shaped the post-socialist music landscape. In doing so, it will also explain the role of the audience, the music industry, and journalists whose attitude led to a stereotypical branding of the band as an “underground legend,” a reduction that was only intensified by the business strategy of the band’s leading label, Indies Records. Drawing on the sociological approach to rock music and music industry studies, this study also exposes the contradictory nature of the anti-commercialism myth of alternative music culture.

Název v anglickém jazyce

Charting Post-Underground Nostalgia: Anachronistic Practices of the Post-Velvet Revolution Rock Scene

Popis výsledku anglicky

The 1990s music scene in East-Central Europe has often been described as a melting pot of various genres wherein different official and unofficial musicians from the socialist era merged with all kinds of contemporary Western impulses. This begs the question: did all those new influences necessarily lead to a change of taste and expectations among audiences or even to a change in the music industry’s policies? In contrast to the popular narrative of the dynamic post-Velvet Revolution transformation of culture and society, this article offers a contrasting view of a particularly anachronistic tendency that unfolded during the transition, the mover of which was a conservative post-underground audience that longed much less for novelty than for continuity and survival of the cultural and aesthetic patterns of the normalization period. Following a case study of the Czech alternative rock band Psí vojáci (Dog Soldiers) and pointing out several paradoxes that framed and determined its musical production and reception, the goal of the essay is to examine the socio-cultural mechanisms underlying the anachronistic and nostalgic stance that substantially shaped the post-socialist music landscape. In doing so, it will also explain the role of the audience, the music industry, and journalists whose attitude led to a stereotypical branding of the band as an “underground legend,” a reduction that was only intensified by the business strategy of the band’s leading label, Indies Records. Drawing on the sociological approach to rock music and music industry studies, this study also exposes the contradictory nature of the anti-commercialism myth of alternative music culture.

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J_SC - Článek v periodiku v databázi SCOPUS

CEP obor

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OECD FORD obor

60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)

Projekt

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Návaznosti

I - Institucionalni podpora na dlouhodoby koncepcni rozvoj vyzkumne organizace

Rok uplatnění

2017

Kód důvěrnosti údajů

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Název periodika

Iluminace

ISSN

0862-397X

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Svazek periodika

29

Číslo periodika v rámci svazku

3

Stát vydavatele periodika

CZ - Česká republika

Počet stran výsledku

22

Strana od-do

65-86

Kód UT WoS článku

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EID výsledku v databázi Scopus

2-s2.0-85041424099