CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2008
| Author | Hagen, Trever Thomas |
|---|---|
| Title | Underground Impulses: The Czechoslovak Artistic Field, 1948-1977 |
| Summary | This paper examines the construction of the Czechoslovak Underground community in the 1970s through music as a social activity. I argue that the Underground was able to construct a community based on the historical trajectories of cultural resistance within Bohemia and by social positioning through atavistic techniques. Using Bourdieu’s theory of practice within, I begin by discussing the reconstitution of the artistic field in Czechoslovakia following the communist take over in 1948. By looking at the imposition of Socialist Realism, I trace the inclusionary/exclusionary cultural policy practices of the socialist State and how musicians and artists engaged in a struggle of legitimation over proper/improper modes of expression. From a subversive and dominated position in the artistic field, I will show how the Underground created an alternative social and cultural space built upon heterodox impulses and resources of previous generations that coalesced into a community. The paper thus seeks to examine the relationship between symbolic community formations under oppressive conditions. |
| Supervisor | Kowalski, Alexandra; Trencsényi, Balázs |
| Department | Sociology MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2008/hagen_trevor.pdf |
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