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1 Table
of
Contents
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3 Acknowledgements
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6 Figures,
Tables,
Copyright
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8 1.
Introduction
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10 1.1
The
Czech
Underground:
a
Brief
Description
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11 1.2
Music
in
the
Eastern
Bloc
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15 1.3
Sociology
of
Music
to
Music
in
Action
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17 1.4
Organization
of
Thesis
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20 Chapter
2:
Musicking
in
Cultural
Spaces
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24 2.1.1
Community
Activity
and
Group
Culture
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27 2.1.2
Musical
Scenes
and
Cultural
Spaces
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30 2.1.3
Ecological
Perspectives
of
Community
Activity
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32 2.1.4
Learning
Dispositions
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36 2.1.5
Art
Worlds
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40 2.1.6
Affordances
and
Mediations
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42 2.2.
Coming
Together
Musically
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45 2.2.3
Community
Health,
Musicking
and
Resistance
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48 2.2.4
Summary:
a
Music
Sociology
of
Keeping
Together
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52 2.3.
Resistance,
Revolution
and
Music
in
the
Eastern
Bloc
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53 2.3.2
Dissidence
in
the
Eastern
Bloc
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60 2.4
Conclusion:
Toward
an
Aesthetic
Ecology
of
Cultural
Spaces
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61 Chapter
3:
Researching
Cultural
Spaces
in
an
Ecological
Perspective
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64 3.1
Studying
Spaces
of
Aesthetic
Ecology
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65 3.2
Entering
the
research
field
2004-‐2007
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71 3.2.1
Observing
but
not
Participating
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73 3.2.2
Gaining
Access
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77 3.4
Doing
the
Research
.................................................................................................................
80 3.4.1
Participant
Observation
.................................................................................................................
80 3.4.2
Interviews
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84 3.4.3
Archival
Research
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90 3.4.4
Official
archives
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90 3.4.5
Alternative
archives
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97 3.5
Documenting
the
Data
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102 3.5.1
Research
ethics
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106 3.6
Analyzing
the
Data
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107 3.7
Self-‐Reflexivity
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110 3.8
Conclusion
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112 Chapter
4:
Furnishing
the
Underground
Space
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114 4.1
Building
on
History:
Early
Cultural
Resources
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114 4.1.1
Czechoslovak
BigBít
in
the
1960s
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116 4.1.2
Proto-‐Underground
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123 4.1.3
Knížák
and
Fluxus
Furnishings
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129