Czechoslovak Pop Music in Young People’s Lifestyle Magazines in the “Anti-Decade”, 1985–1995

This article analyses the coverage of pop music in two magazines for older children and young adults during the transition from late socialism to post-socialism in Czechoslovakia or what has been called the “anti-decade” of 1985–1995. By revisiting Pionýr, a magazine for adolescents aged 12 to 15 an...

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spelling oai:doaj.org-article:02d67e0b64264654858fd290f032770e2021-11-23T12:40:40ZCzechoslovak Pop Music in Young People’s Lifestyle Magazines in the “Anti-Decade”, 1985–1995 1803-73562336-7105https://doaj.org/article/02d67e0b64264654858fd290f032770e2020-11-01T00:00:00Zhttps://praguepapers.ff.cuni.cz/wp-content/uploads/sites/16/2021/11/Tomas_Kavka_29-43.pdfhttps://doaj.org/toc/1803-7356https://doaj.org/toc/2336-7105This article analyses the coverage of pop music in two magazines for older children and young adults during the transition from late socialism to post-socialism in Czechoslovakia or what has been called the “anti-decade” of 1985–1995. By revisiting Pionýr, a magazine for adolescents aged 12 to 15 and Mladý svět, a magazine for young adults aged 15 to 30, I uncover the gradual transformation of Czechoslovak pop music from a genre for Mladý svět’s broad young audience to one aimed specifically at teenagers after 1989. These teens were the target readers of Pionýr and its post-socialist successors, Filip and Filip pro-náctileté (Filip for Teenagers). Pop music was connected with social capital and incorporated into the lifestyles of Mladý svět’s readers. However, it gradually disappeared from the pages of the magazine and became increasingly visible in Pionýr and its post-socialist counterparts. This study argues that this connection of pop music with teen lifestyles and values had profound social impacts between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s.Tomáš KavkaUniverzita Karlova, Filozofická fakultaarticleczechoslovak pop musiclate socialismpost-socialismgeneration magazinestransformationmladý svět (young world magazine)pionýr (pioneer magazine)International relationsJZ2-6530DEENPrague Papers on the History of International Relations, Iss 1, Pp 29-43 (2020)
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language DE
EN
topic czechoslovak pop music
late socialism
post-socialism
generation magazines
transformation
mladý svět (young world magazine)
pionýr (pioneer magazine)
International relations
JZ2-6530
spellingShingle czechoslovak pop music
late socialism
post-socialism
generation magazines
transformation
mladý svět (young world magazine)
pionýr (pioneer magazine)
International relations
JZ2-6530
Tomáš Kavka
Czechoslovak Pop Music in Young People’s Lifestyle Magazines in the “Anti-Decade”, 1985–1995
description This article analyses the coverage of pop music in two magazines for older children and young adults during the transition from late socialism to post-socialism in Czechoslovakia or what has been called the “anti-decade” of 1985–1995. By revisiting Pionýr, a magazine for adolescents aged 12 to 15 and Mladý svět, a magazine for young adults aged 15 to 30, I uncover the gradual transformation of Czechoslovak pop music from a genre for Mladý svět’s broad young audience to one aimed specifically at teenagers after 1989. These teens were the target readers of Pionýr and its post-socialist successors, Filip and Filip pro-náctileté (Filip for Teenagers). Pop music was connected with social capital and incorporated into the lifestyles of Mladý svět’s readers. However, it gradually disappeared from the pages of the magazine and became increasingly visible in Pionýr and its post-socialist counterparts. This study argues that this connection of pop music with teen lifestyles and values had profound social impacts between the mid-1980s and the early 1990s.
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author Tomáš Kavka
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title Czechoslovak Pop Music in Young People’s Lifestyle Magazines in the “Anti-Decade”, 1985–1995
title_short Czechoslovak Pop Music in Young People’s Lifestyle Magazines in the “Anti-Decade”, 1985–1995
title_full Czechoslovak Pop Music in Young People’s Lifestyle Magazines in the “Anti-Decade”, 1985–1995
title_fullStr Czechoslovak Pop Music in Young People’s Lifestyle Magazines in the “Anti-Decade”, 1985–1995
title_full_unstemmed Czechoslovak Pop Music in Young People’s Lifestyle Magazines in the “Anti-Decade”, 1985–1995
title_sort czechoslovak pop music in young people’s lifestyle magazines in the “anti-decade”, 1985–1995
publisher Univerzita Karlova, Filozofická fakulta
publishDate 2020
url https://doaj.org/article/02d67e0b64264654858fd290f032770e
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