Popular Music Research behind the Iron Curtain

Jan Blüml has been working at the Department of Musicology, Palacký University Olomouc, Czech Republic, since 2014. His primary academic focusis the history of popular music in East Central Europe, with a particular emphasis on music in the former Czechoslovakia. Aleš Opekar works in the Department of Musicology at the Institute of Art History of the Czech Academy of Sciences. He specialises in the history and theory of popular music. He is active in the field of music journalism and is co-founder of the Museum and Archive of Popular Music (Popmuseum) in Prague.

• Table of Contents - Introduction - Research on Popular Music in International Contexts - Czech Theoretical Reflection on Popular Music before the Second World War - Academic and Non-academic Theoretical Reflection on Popular Music – Official and Unofficial Music Journalism - Conclusions - Selected Bibliography - Index