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This work engages in the import and distribution of the audio storages, concretely the gramophone records to Czechoslovakia. A gramophone record - differently to other audio storages like reel-to-reel tape records or later the cassettes - was meanwhile also an artefact that personified an attractive exoticness of the western world and because of its format and graphical elaboration it represented a valuable object of popular culture. The work is based on the assumption that the development of Czechoslovak musical subcultures depended largely on the distribution of gramophone records. That is why author focuses his attention on the unofficial import of the LP records by private persons. The very limited state-controlled import of this product will be also partly taken in account. An important question within this work is the import of the west-made music from other socialist states. In many of those countries licenses of those LPs were released much more often than in CSSR. Compared to the original western LPs it was easier for Czechoslovakian citizens to reach them - because of better possibilities to travel to socialist countries and yet because of a relatively low prices of eastern presses. Student also tries to revise the common notion (typical for both academic and non-academic sphere)...

Věra Chytilova’s film was created during the culmination of processes related to the Czechoslovak normalization. Prague… is not only a highly stylized film essay that provides the viewer with a fascinating visual experience and deep emotions, but evokes the themes of a substantive philosophical debate in conjunction with the knowledge of Prague’s genius loci. Chytilova’s film considers the history and role of humans, taking as a starting point the history of Prague. Therefore, the film still inspires. Film Věry Chytilovej powstał w latach kulminacji procesów związanych z czechosłowacką normalizacją. Praga… jest nie tylko wysoce stylizowanym esejem filmowym, który dostarcza widzowi fascynację wizualną i głębokie emocje, przedstawia także debatę merytoryczną natury filozoficznej w powiązaniu ze świadomością praskiego genius loci. Biorąc za punkt wyjścia historię Pragi, rozważa dzieje i rolę człowieka w nich. Dlatego film ten do dziś inspiruje.

The work deals with the mapping of underground cultural phenomenon in the Czechoslovak normalization environment. Especially arising subculture within the band The Plastic People of the Universe. Described is a brief history of the band, its sources of inspiration, lyrics and music. The next section focuses on the persecution of the regime and the subsequent wave of solidarity from the Czech intellectuals and dissidents, which substantially contributed to the formation of Charter 77.