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Underground

Underground. The Begginigs of Czech Undeground. The Primitives Group, 1966-69 Psychedelic performances Hendrix, Doors, Fugs, Mothers of Invention Magor – art student 1968 Fish Fest 1969 Bird Fest. 1st CS Beat Fest. Plastic People of the Universe. http://youtu.be/SIJvloR2TYY Psychedelic

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Underground

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  1. Underground

  2. The Begginigs of Czech Undeground • The Primitives Group, 1966-69 • Psychedelic performances • Hendrix, Doors, Fugs, Mothers of Invention • Magor – art student • 1968 Fish Fest • 1969 Bird Fest

  3. 1st CS Beat Fest Plastic People of the Universe http://youtu.be/SIJvloR2TYY Psychedelic Velvet Undeground Magor Remarkably original music – electronic experiments + free jazz Connecting intellectual world and spontaneous rock outcasts • 1967 –Hippies • „popular artistic creativity“ • Olympic, Blue Effect

  4. Krejcarová and Bondy • Honza Krejcarová • Milena Jesenská (Ravensbrück) and Jaroslav Krejcar (Devětsil) • Femme fatale, bohemian lifestyle • Hrabal: „swan with a broken wing“ • Without quest for meaning there is no ethics • Egon Bondy • Spiritual father of the Czech underground • 1949, surrealist Jewish Names with Honza Krejcarová • 1970´s friends with Magor, PPU sing his poems and texts • Against real socialism, against consumer society

  5. Bondy • „To follow one’s bliss is depressing: we can strive for pleasure in small things as biological needs, which though, does not provide satisfaction of the meaning of existence. Nothing we do for ourselves solves the basic need for meaning, because egoism is pointless.“

  6. Ivan Martin Jirous 1945‒2011 http://www.radio.cz/en/section/books/mike-baugh-and-magor-translating-the-untranslatable • Poet laureate, Swan songs • Studied art history, influenced by Fluxus, happening, Andy Warhol • Mastermind of “Third Czech Musical Revival”, manager of the PPU • Magor (Loony)

  7. PPU • Mejla Hlavsa, • bass guitar

  8. 1968 • Soviet Invasion, August 21 • Jan Palach, 1969 – burrial anticommunist demonstration • http://www.janpalach.cz/cs/default/archiv/video

  9. Karel Kryl • Protest Song, 1968-1969 • Brother, Close the Door https://alternativecultures.wordpress.com/2013/10/21/karel-kryl-1968/

  10. 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.

  11. underground • Manifesto by Magor-Loony The Third Czech Music Revival • DG 307 Pavel Z + Mejla Hlavsa • Umela hmota (Plastic) • The Plastic People of the Universe (Egon Bondy’s Lonely Hearts Club Banned) • 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

  12. PPU • Black concerts (marriages) • 1974 Massacre in Budějovice • Commission for protection of public order • Gestapo practices of the police, traumatizing

  13. Underground and Dissent • 1976, PPU jailed – supported by Václav Havel  Charter 77 • Havel Oragnised two concerts of PPU at Hrádeček • Rock  democratic opposition • Patočka • Charter 77 • Olga Havlová • Sváťa Karásek

  14. 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“

  15. StB Actions • Jiří Gans • Jewish, parents perished in concentration camps • Almost blind • Accused for spying in České Budějovice • Listened to jazzrock music – friends with the American diplomat since 1965 • Surrounded by young people that wanted to listen to the music • Sentenced to death in 1976 for moral distorsion of youth, tortured

  16. Pavel Wonka • Member of the Jazz Section • Died 1988, aged 35 • Political prisoner • Deputee candidate • Called for reconstruction • Magor iniciated a petition for release of political prisoners • Tortured • His own family had hard times to recognize his body • Burrial – speech of Vlasta Chramostová and priest Václav Malý (catholic priest without a state consent) • So far no one has been punished for his death

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