The Czech music scene before and after the velvet revolution
Photo by Sudhith Xavier
A bit of a historical recap is needed before we start to talk about the difference between the concept of music nowadays and the idea of music that was characteristic of the past as, without the past, there is no present, and in the Czech scene this is as twice as true. The contact with major centres of musical development occurred at a time when only two or three good-quality foreign albums could be seen on the decks of gramophones since the Czech audience used to have a strong inclination specifically towards local artists.
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