Dekáda naplno - Kniha proměn české populární hudby 90. let 20. století – Diestler Radek (2023)

The first comprehensive book about the Czech music scene after November 1989. In thirteen chapters, it describes the creation of a club and festival network, the building of the record industry and concert agencies, changes in the perception and sale of music, the fates of metal and folk, the emergence of the Czech indie and dance scene... ***** Freedom, joy, euphoria. Expansion, the world wide open. New possibilities, horizons, experiences, sounds, and even smells (from marijuana to burnt oil from a forgotten deep fryer, a symbol of that decade). The 1990s in the Czech Republic. ***** It was an extraordinary time full of extraordinary experiences. And popular music played a significant role in it, perhaps for the last time in its history. ***** THE DECADE IN FULL is a thorough (but not academically heavy) report on the transformations of pop music in Czechoslovakia, or rather the Czech Republic, in the last decade of the last century. A period that will never be repeated and which is now so distant that it is time to describe and reflect on it. If possible, without nostalgia: because nostalgia is a treacherous lens. ***** Finally, the survey The Eleven of the Decade will also feature invited personalities: Blanka Šrůmová, Miroslav Wanek, Petr Fiala, Zdeněk Suchý, Jakub Skalický, Petr Choura, Petr Zelenka, Mardoša, Radim Špaček, Jiří Neumann, and Jaromír...