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  • 28 - Understanding Czech Rock from the Period of Normalization

  • from Part III - The Twentieth Century and Beyond
  • Edited by Martin Nedbal, University of Kansas, Kelly St. Pierre, Wichita State University and Institute for Theoretical Studies, Prague,, Hana Vlhová-Wörner, University of Basel and Masaryk Institute, Prague
  • Book:
    A History of Music in the Czech Lands
    Published online:
    21 October 2025
    Print publication:
    16 October 2025, pp 393-405

  • Summary

    This chapter begins by exploring the professionalization of Czech rock under the influence of The Beatles in the 1960s, exemplified by the group Olympic. The second part of the chapter focuses on the distinction between official and unofficial types of popular music that emerged in the 1970s and 1980s. An examination of the output and reception of the groups Blue Effect and The Plastic People of the Universe during this period illustrates how rock music became politicized during normalization and how this politicization influenced later Czech historiographies of rock.