Profesní vzdělávání a uplatnění rockově zaměřených publicistů v období normalizace
Professional Education and Employment of Czech Music Journalism Focused on Rock Music in the Period of Normalization

Summary/Abstract: The advent of rock music in sixties has fundamentally changed the entire field of popular music all over the world including Czechoslovakia. Rock music played an irreplaceable social role, especially in relation to young generations who were using it as a significant voice of their feelings. The evolving area of rock music did not correspond to its professional reflection in official mass media. Serious rock music journalism significantly developed only at the end of the sixties. In the period of normalization, the Czechoslovak communist government restarted to hold rigidly to Marxist- Leninist ideology in its political and cultural practise. This turn also resulted in a new official approach to rock music characterised by differentiated forms of media regimentation including prescriptive media coverage the rock music or massive reduction of popular music periodicals. The article is focuses on the description of music journalism training based on university studies as well as on less formal ways of further training provided by interest groups or illegal platforms in the period of normalisation. This article also attempts to give deeper thought into how the area of rock music can become ideologically an unwanted way of making a living.

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