PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Blüml, Jan
TI  - The Issue of "Discotheques" in Czechoslovak Popular Music with Special Regard to the Music Scene in Olomouc
DP  - 2016 Dec 11
TA  - Musicologica Olomucensia
PG  - 7--17
VI  - 24
IP  - 2
AID - 10.5507/mo.2016.012
IS  - 27879186
AB  - Discotheques were one of the most important forms of Czechoslovak popular culture before 1989. These events mediated entertainment for a broad group of people, at the same time provided information unavailable in the context of the official media. For these reasons, discotheques quite soon became the focus of communist cultural politics. Its representatives attempted to form the given phenomenon under the direction of communist ideology, both administratively and in terms of education. The paper, which is based on an investigation of original sources including interviews with witnesses, deals with the aforementioned issues also with regard to the music scene of the main city of Central Moravia, Olomouc.