Alternative culture in a socialist city  : Punkers and long-haired people in Prague in the 1980s

• Authors: Michaela Pixová
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Cities in socialist Czechoslovakia were meant to constitute the setting for an ideal socialist society. The dogmatic embracement of this objective by the ruling Communist Party eventuated in complete intolerance towards any manifestation of free-thinking of alleged opposition to socialism. Starting in the 1960s, part od Czechoslovak youth were inspired by the Western countercultural hippie movement and the Beat generation, as well as by punk subculture beginning in the 1970s. These people openly displayed their alienation from the official cultury by disrupting the established societal standards of appearance, behaviour, and leisure activities.

Keywords

EN

socialist city; urban society; alternative culture; totality; punkers; long-haired people

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2013
• Volume: 100
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 319-338
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Michaela Pixová

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic