Popular Music Research behind the Iron Curtain
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- ISBN 9783631919323
- Weight: 369g
- Dimensions: 148 x 210mm
- Publication Date: 28 Jul 2025
- Publisher: Peter Lang AG
- Publication City/Country: CH
- Product Form: Hardback
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The book explores the development of popular music research in the Czech lands and neighbouring socialist states, a field that was institutionalised here well before it was in the West. Based on the analysis of previously unprocessed archival sources, the authors examine the preconditions for the early establishment of ‘popular musicology’ in the Czech lands in the context of Marxist music criticism and communist cultural policy, focusing on the milestones of 1948, 1968, and 1989. The authors discuss how popular music research was organised in the Czech lands, its protagonists, how their work was influenced by the environment of the respective countries behind the Iron Curtain, and how their approaches differed from the ones of their Western colleagues.
Jan Blüml has been working at the Department of Musicology, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, since 2014. His primary academic focusis the history of popular music in East Central Europe, with a particular emphasis on music in the former Czechoslovakia.
Aleš Opekar works in the Department of Musicology at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He specialises in the history and theory of popular music. He is active in the field of music journalism and is co-founder of the Museum and Archive of Popular Music (Popmuseum) in Prague.
