The study examines Czechoslovak pop from the 1960s to the 1980s on the basis of representative hit production. It looks at the characteristic features of the genre in its various historical phases and decades, paying more attention to pop of the crucial period of the advent of the so-called…

The building of cultural dynamics of Czechoslovak post-stalinist era of the 1960s was interconnected to profitable production activities and restoring of ties to the West. Louis Armstrong’s series of performances in March 1965 became a milestone of this trend. Two key figures of the second half of…

Music recordings of foreign provenance were available on the Czechoslovak market from 1948 to 1989 exclusively in the form of licensed titles issued by the state-owned enterprises Supraphon and, later, Opus. Previous attempts to summarise the licensing policy of both entities have been limited to…

Disco music and closely related discos became a significant phenomenon in the late socialist period. The virtually automatic hostility of communist authorities to new musical genres coming from the West did not apply to disco music. It thus became a music genre associated with the lifestyle of young…

The so-called Velvet Revolution in 1989 brought, among other social transformations, turbulent changes in the music industry. This study examines the changes in music publishing during the transition from the late state socialism of the second half of the 1980s to the post-socialism of the early…