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Jeans and rock 'n' roll are more powerful than the Red Army, said the French philosopher Régis Debray once, and it is a fact that while the army with the red star withdrew from Czechoslovakia, the jeans remained. During their invasion, it was not the muzzles of rifles that were visible, but the tousled heads of the first brave souls. No bans could stop this wave, no obstacle was high enough for the blue trousers to overcome. Not in Czechoslovakia, nor anywhere else in the Eastern Bloc, as Michal Petrov demonstrates in his latest book. Despite common denominators, jeans wrote their indigo story differently in each country of socialist Europe. Although we perceive this fashion evergreen as absolutely natural today, it once embodied a dream for the overwhelming majority of youth, a dream that often remained unfulfilled for years. What were they willing to endure and risk for it? What were the paths of smugglers, traders, and hustlers? Where did this entire blue obsession originate? And why must the book Jeans Story. Retro Blue bear an English title?
Information
Author: Petrov Michal
Publication date: October 16, 2019
Manufacturer: Nakladatelství JOTA, s.r.o.
Genres: Personal development, Specialized and technical literature, Books, Non-fiction literature
Type: Hardcover books
Pages: 312
ISBN/EAN: 9788075655479