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Dechovka: the brass band music that gave voice to Czech life
Dechovka is one of the most recognisable forms of Czech and Moravian popular music: polkas, waltzes, marches, singable melodies and a warm sound built around wind instruments. Born from the meeting of military bands, local traditions, associational life and village festivals, it has crossed the nineteenth century, the First Republic, socialism and the present. It is not merely “grandparents’ music”: it is a lens through which to understand community, memory, popular taste and Central European identity.
Dechovka: the brass band music that gave voice to Czech life
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