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Czech Normalisation Pop

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  • Where: Václav Havel Library, Ostrovní 13, Prague 110 00
  • When: April 21, 2016, 19:00 – 21:00

Today we look at the 1970s and ‘80s in Czechoslovakia with wide-eyed wonder: How could an everyday lie prove so successful?

The then entertainment culture played a role in this – and its popularity endures to this day, transcending the totalitarian era. The regular output of the day, as well as pop as propaganda, ranks as an acrid and bizarre phenomenon of modern Czech history. Václav Havel described the media situation in such terms in the essay Zpívá celá rodina (The Whole Family Sings) (1975), which remains pertinent.

Pavel Klusák will select gems of normalisation pop and reconstruct their story.

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