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Rock subculture in Bratislava

· · Musicologica 1/2019, Rock Pop Jazz

Although the Bratislava rock subculture was established in the late 1950s, the bands were given the opportunity to perform professionally only in 1963. On the one hand, rock pushed jazz out as a genre, on the other hand, there were various censorship problems. The Bratislava rock subculture changed from hard rock to art rock, bans mainly related to punk rock and heavy metal as styles. In the 1990s, the hip hop subculture began to push rock out as a genre, and rock survives mainly due to poly-stylistic connections with other genres.

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Entertaining Music in Bratislava until 1938

· · Musicologica 1/2016, Rock Pop Jazz

At the end of the 19th century and at the beginning of the 20th century, Bratislava has been multicultural small city, which was gradually taking over many features of a big city entertaimnet up until 1938. Hungarian, German and Slovak music culture has been overlapped, but also cultures of other nations penetrated to the music such as Klezmer, Romani, Czech music and others. In this period dominated genres of brass music, music of promenade orchestras, chants of street parades, Gypsy music, saloon orchestras, cinema music, folk music and operetta in Bratislava.To these genres gradually penetrated entertaining music from big cities in the form of shimmy, two-step, one step, tango, charleston, rumba, cha-cha and jazz. In this multicultural environment, the first dance song had been created by D. Pálka-Š. Hoza: Don’t Tell Girl to Anyone.

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