An Italian HC Frontman Melded into Czechoslovakia

Short history of the Underage, one of the first Italian Hard Core punk bands, mainly through the narration of his frontman and the literature at the disposal of authors of the paper. The interviews are conceived as unstructured in order to build better rapport with the interviewee. Using the emic approach, the aim of the paper is to understand from the insider view, how an Italian punk melted in the then Czechoslovakia and which kind of problems he had before and after the changes of 1989. Free narration enables the interviewee to use his own spontaneous language to tell the story of his life with minimal influence of the interviewer. It is also generally believed that telling stories makes the interviewee express his/her particular perspective in a more genuine form than when he/she is manipulated into answering specific questions in the question-response-schema method. By using the episodic interview method, which combines the advantages of the narrative and guided interview, the informant reveals not only the story of the particular experience as it was preserved in his memory (times, places, situations, and other participants), but also the semantic knowledge attached to this particular experience.