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For Digbeth First Friday Centrala presents 149 minutes compilation of audio-visual materials (1963 – 1986) sets out to extend the history of European pop culture by including the impact of music by artists of Central and Eastern European origin, such as Czerwone Gitary, Marta Kubišová, Olympic, Hana and Petr Ulrychovi, Illés, Czes?aw Niemen and Synkopy 61.
The specificity of these artists lies in their singular stylistic identity – they appear as a unique blend of various influences drawn from local musical traditions and Anglo-American patterns, developed under the restrictions of oppressive regimes.
What is important for Wayne Burrows’ approach to those issues is the implicit parallel between state restricted artistic freedom during the 1963 – 1988 period in Poland, Hungary, Czechoslovakia and other Eastern Bloc countries and the contemporary shape of artists’ working conditions, which depend on Western neoliberal ideology.
Full list of audio-visual materials
Filipinki: Batumi (Poland, 1964)
Helena Majdaniec: You Can Have Him (Poland/Germany, 1966)
Czeslaw Niemen + Niebiesko Czarni: Ciuciubabka (Poland, 1963)
Czerwone Gitary: Nikt Na Swiecie Nie Wie (Poland, 1967)
Hana a Petr Ulrychovi + Vulkán: Sen (Czechoslovakia, 1967)
Opening Scene: Mocne Uderzenie (Poland, 1966)
Ada Rusowicz + Niebiesko-Czarni: Nie pukaj do moich drzwi (Poland, 1966)
Sarolta Zalatnay + Metro: Mostanában bármit teszünk (Hungary, 1967)
Marta Kubišová: Rezavý Sv?t (Czechoslovakia, 1967)
Prúdy: ?ierna Ruža (Czechoslovakia, 1968)
Olympic: Psychiatrický Prášek (Czechoslovakia, 1967)
Hana a Petr Ulrychovi + Atlantis: Don’t You Break It Again (Czechoslovakia, 1968)
Karel Kahovec + Flamengo: Poprava Blond Holky (Czechoslovakia, 1967)
Illés: Nehéz Az Út (Hungary, 1967)
Blue Effect: Sun Is So Bright (Czechoslovakia, 1968)
Plastic People of the Universe: The Sun (Czechoslovakia, 1969)
Hana Zagorová: Svatej Kluk (Czechoslovakia, 1968)
Synkopy 61: Venuše (Czechoslovakia, 1969)
Olympic: Ikarus Blues (Czechoslovakia, 1968)
Marta Kubišová: Ne (Czechoslovakia, 1969)
Marta Kubišová: Modlitba pro Martu (Czechoslovakia, 1968/1989)
The Rebels: Definitivni Konec (Czechoslovakia, 1968)
Hana a Petr Ulrychovi + Atlantis: Ticho (Czechoslovakia, 1969)
Václav Necká? + Golden Kids: Goo-Goo Barabajagal (Czechoslovakia, 1969)
Synkopy 61: Válka je v?l (Czechoslovakia, 1968)
Omega: Gyöngyhajú lány (Hungary, 1969)
Czes?aw Niemen: Jednego Serca (Poland, 1969)
Marta Kubišová: Tajga Blues ‘69 (Czechoslovakia, 1969)
Mira Kubasi?ska + Breakout: Posz?abym za Tob? (Poland, 1969)
NOVI Singers: Torpedo (Poland, 1970)
Marek Grechuta + Anawa: Korowód (Poland, 1971)
Tadeusz Wo?niak: Zegarmistrz Swiat?a (Poland, 1972)
Halina Fr?ckowiak: Barwy Ziemi (Poland, 1970)
Marie Rottrová: Perpetuum Mobile (Czechoslovakia, 1972)
Karel Gott address to ‘Anticharta’ conference (Czechoslovakia, 1977)
Plastic People of the Universe: Pašije (Czechoslovakia, 1978)
Judit Sz?cs: ?rdiszkó (Hungary, 1978)
Maanam: Polskie Ulice/Stoj?, stoj?, czuj? si? ?wietnie (Poland, 1983/1980)
Izabela Trojanowska: Jestem Twoim Grzechem (Poland, 1981)
Ró?owe Czuby (Maryla Rodowicz): Dentysta Sadysta (Poland, 1982)
Gayga: Maryna (Poland, 1982)
Kapitan Nemo: Wideonarkomania (Poland, 1986)
Hana a Petr Ulrychovi + Javory: Za Vodou, Za Horou (Czechoslovakia, 1998)