[rohrpost] Czech underground/alternative music: Lecture with Pavla Jonssonova/Film screening | July 3, 7 p.m.

[Natalie Gravenor]

Czech Alternative Music Scenes in Transition: Lecture with Pavla 
Jonssonová and Screening of the cult documentary Hudba 85

In the 1980s alternative music scene in Czechoslovakia thrived as 
resistance to the mainstream ideological culture. The change of the 
regime in 1989 ended a historical period of its underground existence 
and brought its music shortly to the forefront with the establishing of 
labels, recording studios, rock clubs, musicshops and radio stations. 
Czech bands started to tour the world, to be signed up to major labels, 
appeared on Czech TV in numerous documentaries and live shows, but they 
lost the pre-1989 heroic activist appeal.

The lecture will focus on the trajectory of rise and fall and slow 
fragmentation of the alternative scene, depicting in videos some of the 
highlights of bands like Už jsme doma and Zuby nehty.

Pavla Jonssonová was a bass player with the bands Dybbuk, Plyn and Zuby 
nehty; today she lectures Cultural Studies at the Charles University of 
Prague.

After approximately 8 pm the first part of the evening will be followed 
by the legendary documentary Hudba 85 that introduces Czech bands 
existing 1985 on the verge of legality and illegality - nobody knew how 
long they would survive. The documentary contains clips and concert 
recordings of the bands Garáž, Dybbuk, Krásné nové stroje, Nahoru po 
schodišti dolů, Babalet, Mama Bubo, Precedens.

Lecture in English

Time: Thursday, July 3, 2014, 7 p.m.
Venue: Czech Center Berlin, Wilhelmstrasse 44, 10117 Berlin-Mitte

Admission free

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