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Czech Alternative and Underground scene

Czech Alternative and Underground scene. 1968 - 1990´s. Post 68: requalifications exams. Gustáv Husák : general secretary in 1969 Concerts had to be officialy allowed No English names or lyrics Long hair not allowed on the TV screen – police haircuts of Czech hippies strategies:

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Czech Alternative and Underground scene

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  1. Czech Alternative and Underground scene 1968 - 1990´s

  2. Post 68: requalifications exams • Gustáv Husák : general secretary in 1969 • Concerts had to be officialy allowed • No English names or lyrics • Long hair not allowed on the TV screen – police haircuts of Czech hippies strategies: • Mainstream – Korn, Petr Novak, Spaleny, • Instrumental: Blue Effekt, Jazz Q, Collegium Musicum • Emmigration: Ivan Kral • Resignation – Marta Kubišová • Underground – PPU, DG 307, etc.

  3. underground • Manifesto by Martin Ivan Jirous (Magor-Loony) The Third Czech Music Revival • The Plastic People of the Universe (Egon Bondy’s Lonely Hearts Club Banned) • Remarkably original music – electronic experiments + free jazz • Connecting intellectual world and spontaneous rock outcasts • 1971 Homage to Andy Warhol (Velvet Underground) • Illegal screening of his movies Mud, Sleep and Meal • PPU gradually forbidden to perform in public, harassed by the police • DG 307 Pavel Z + Mejla Hlavsa • Umela hmota

  4. Underground and dissent • 1976, PPU jailed – supported by Václav Havel  Charter 77 • Havel Oragnised two concerts of PPU at Hrádeček • Rock  democratic opposition • Olga Havlová • Sváťa Karásek – protestant religion • 1977 Theatre Rubín – actors jailed for spreading Chart 77

  5. Ivan Martin Jirous 1945‒2011 • Poet laureate, Swan songs • Studied art history, influenced by Fluxus, happening, Andy Warhol • Mastermind of “Third Czech Musical Revival”, manager of the PPU

  6. PPU 1979 • Ladislav Klíma anniversary • Suffering of the Prince Sternenhoch – a grotesque tale of horror • radical individualism, influenced by Nietzsche

  7. Jazzová sekce • Valdštejnská 14, Prague 1 • Jazz Section,negotiated by Karel Srp1971 with authorities limit 3,000 members. • Activities: • Publishing – bulletins on contemporary culture and philosophy (Štyrský, Seifert, Hrabal), Jazz Petit, rock encyclopedia, 1984 Nobel Prize acceptance speech by Jaroslav Seifert. • festivals“Jazz” Days • Since 1974 • since 76 rock • Lectures on philosophy and on the action art • Banned in 1984 – continued even though • 1985 home searches, interroagtions • Members jailed 1986-1987 (Karel Srp) for illegal (not allowed) business – selling books • Trial = first huge open resistance to the communist regime; • Participation of the Chartists

  8. Eugen Brikcius • Křižovnice School of Pure Humor Without Witt (Crusaders´ School of Pure Humor Without Jokes) • Performance • 1967 Thanksgiving – breadloafs brought to the baroque Vrtba Garden to the feet of young girls • Looking on and Idea of an Image • Poetry in latin • Jailed in 1973-74 with Magor for quire singing in a bar • Allen Ginsberg, Lawrence Ferlinghetti • Signed Charter 77 • 1980 emigrated to Vienna

  9. Chramostová and Milota Chramostová - actress Milota - cameraman The Cremator with Chramostová, 1968 Burrials of Seifert and Patočka – StB 1st director of the office of Václav Havel after 1989 – demonstratively quit Home theater : Seifert, All the Beauty of the World, 1976, banned in the 1980´s „Long Time Ago= On Burrying in the Czech Country“ – on the life of Božena Němcová, 1979 Actualised after the burrial of Patočka who died after StB auditions London, Austria • „Action Norbert“ – in the case of the danger for the republic they were supposed to be physically liquidated within 24 hours • Jailed for collecting signatures for a petition to release Havel from a prison • Played Babička (Němcová´s „Grandmother“): „Eyes that have cried can see better“

  10. Alternative scene 1980 • Prazsky vyber • Michael Kocáb

  11. Czech New Wave 1981-5 • Connection of rock with film, theatre, art • performance connected with hippie culture, trans tribal meetings, like Frank Zappa, who experimented with classical music and improvized jazz. • 1990 Zappa in Prague - Joska Skalník (we will beat Zappa out of your head – StB)

  12. Psí vojáci • Prague band led by pianist, singer, composer, and poet Filip Topol (*1965. With brother Jachym first concert 1979 when most members were only 13. • 1978 Filip Topol at Hrádeček (Havel) as support before PPU (Easter Passion Plays) • 1979 first audition at the StB • 1981 Veltrusy „Baroque in Bohemia“ – cave under the greenhouse • 1994 Movie Razor Blades

  13. Jáchym Topol *1962 • Poet, writer, teacher • Son of dissident dramatist Josef Topol • Brother of musician Filip Topol of Psí Vojáci • Started samizdat literary Revolver Review.

  14. PUNK • New social movement of independent life • Civic society – first attempt to practice independent social activities after 1968 • Punk as a part of “new wave” (generation) • Import from the West faster (tapes, video) • Czech – urban industrial folkore (Czech folk, underground, alternative)

  15. Už jsme doma • Originally from Teplice • Hussite chants, punk energy. • Unusual additions – choirs, medieval instruments • Mira Wanek composer • Martin Velisek artist

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