Trever Hagen

Living in the Merry Ghetto

The Music and Politics of the Czech Underground

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Living in the Merry Ghetto is a new look at illegal music-making in Czechoslovakia during state socialism. The book examines the case of the Czech Underground and the politics of their music and their way of life, paying close attention to the development of the ensemble The Plastic People of the Universe.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 5. Juli 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 231mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 340g
• ISBN-13: 9780190263867
• ISBN-10: 0190263865
• Artikelnr.: 54687569

Autorenporträt

Trever Hagen is a trumpeter, writer and researcher. His interests lie in extended technique, noise, improvisation, movement, memory studies, music therapy and acoustic ecology. Hagen is a former Fulbright Scholar, Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, and Japan Society for the Promotion of Science Fellow.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures and Tables
Abbreviations
Nicknames and diminutives
Acknowledgements
Preface
Chapter One: The Underground Cultural Ecology
Chapter Two: From Socialist Realism to the Prague Spring
Chapter Three: Assembling the Merry Ghetto
Chapter Four: Creativity, Establishment and the Self
Chapter Five: Human Rights, Prison and Amplifiers
Chapter Six: Generating New Waves
Chapter Seven: Underground is Life
Chapter Eight: Getting By Together
Bibliography
References
Index