Rock Music Censorship in Czechoslovakia between 1969 and 1989.

This work is centered on media coverage of rock music in its broader ideological and political sense, with an emphasis on the institutional frame of Communist media propaganda in the period of normalization, i.e., the final phase of the totalitarian political system that was in control in Czechoslovakia from 1969 to 1989. Rock music was indeed a “problematic” genre for Communist cultural policy because it, allegedly, promoted the destabilization of Communist ideological and aesthetic norms. To counteract this, Communists started using propagandist campaigns to manipulate media portrayal of rock music and its protagonists through developing wide range of censorship mechanisms. [ABSTRACT FROM PUBLISHER]