Anna Szemere - Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary

Anna Szemere - Up from the Underground: The Culture of Rock Music in Postsocialist Hungary
Publisher: Pennsylvania State University Press | 2001-12 | ISBN: 0271021322 | PDF | 253 pages | 5.69 MB

What happens to a community of oppositional artists when the purpose and meaning of their resistance are undermined by social transformation? Such was the dilemma facing ~ perso>ns underground artists in Eastern Europe following the collapse of state communism. In "Up From the Underground", Anna Szemere looks at the distaff-music-based underground in Hungary, showing how it anticipated, precipitated and responded to a continuance of fundamental change. Szemere's work focuses on a community of calm musicians that became popular with Hungary's urban youth culture in the betimes 1980s - groups with names such as the Committee, Control Group and the Galloping Coroners. Szemere reveals that activities, treatise and group life of musicians against the background of shifting institutional contexts. By the mid-1990s the change of regime had altered the cultural dynamics of Hungarian corporation, leading to a complete realignment of the underground music world. Szemere uses the opportunity presented through these developments to challenge one-dimensional representations of popular culture and transition in the region. She also addresses more general questions about the intelligence and uses of expressive culture, autonomy, social change and social reproduction. "Up From the Underground" is an important addition to the maintenance for a student on the cultural dimension of the most profound societal change in Europe from that time World War II. It also enriches the increasingly global field of cultural social science and cultural studies by rethinking its central assumptions and theories in the moderate of Eastern Europe's unique historical and social experience.

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