List of lectures:

1. Opening lecture. Introduction, conditions of attestations, etc.

/ Before socialism: “Tramping” and Jazz (a brief look into the local “prehistory”)

2. Collectivisation of music industry in the early 1950s, the rise of pop music in the late 1950s and the return of jazz in the 1960s

3. Rock’n’roll, British Invasion, Hippies (Birmingham school of cultural studies)

4. “Underground” and “Alternative“. Rock music and cultural resistance in the 1970s

5. New wave and the colourful 1980s (Neo-tribes?)

6. Inhospitality of everyday life. Punk and violence in the late state socialism

7. Perestroika and „Rockfest“. New distinction of nonconformity after 1986

8. Import of western gramophone records, DIY cassette tapes samizdat and the “Imaginary West”

9. Comparison with other socialist states (Transnational history)

10. Revolution, transformation, continuities

/ Final lecture. Conclusions. Debates.