Milan Hlavsa and the Troubled Existence of the Music Group
                             “The Plastic People of the Universe”: Life Story and Discourse











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            * Barbora Pecková
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            Abstrakt

            The paper interprets the life story of the musician and the co-founder of the group “The P
            of the Universe”, Milan Hlavsa, through the analysis of interviews realized with Hlavsa in
            1991. The interpretation focuses on the roots of his relationship to rock ’n’ roll music, 

            to be a professional musician, of his relationship to Ivan Jirous, and of his experiences 
            repression. The case study of Hlavsa’s life story embeds the topic of the identification o
            youth subculture in the underground culture. The oral history and biographical method used

            shows the disproportion of the self-identification of the individual and the discourses bu
            underground community. The paper discusses two of the most influential publications about 

            Miroslav Vaněk’s Byl to jenom Rock’n’ roll (It Was Just Rock ’n’ roll) and Jonathan Bolton
            Dissent: Charter 77, The Plastic People of the Universe, and Czech Culture under Communism
            how the methodology and selection of historical subjects and sources influences the interp

            phenomenon of the underground and its participants.

            Klíčová slova

            underground; rock music; Plastic People of the Universe; Milan Hlavsa; life-story

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