Transcript Czech Alternative and Underground scene

Alternative Scene
1970´s – 1990´s
Jazzová sekce
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Valdštejnská 14, Prague 1
Jazz Section, negotiated by Karel Srp 1971 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
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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
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
Alternative scene 1980
• Prazsky
vyber
– Michael
Kocáb
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)
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 interrogation at the
StB
• 1981 Veltrusy „Baroque in
Bohemia“ – cave under the
greenhouse
• 1994 Movie Razor Blades
Jáchym
Topol
*1962
• Poet, writer, teacher
• Son of dissident
dramatist Josef
Topol
• Brother of musician
Filip Topol of Psí
Vojáci
• Started samizdat
literary Revolver
Revue.
• http://www.revolver
revue.cz/
• http://www.radio.cz
/en/section/books/
mike-baugh-andmagor-translatingthe-untranslatable
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)
Už jsme doma
• Originally from Teplice
• Hussite chants, punk
energy.
• Unusual additions –
choirs, medieval
instruments
• Mira Waněk composer
• Martin Velíšek artist
• http://youtu.be/xdJg1
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