Abstract
Auhor in his study turns the attention to the distinction between high and low culture as one that has lost its relevance and is being subsituted by indistinguishability, undecidability, ambivalence and irreducible ambiquity. It is the author's view that this transformation is nowhere as apparent as with Zappa, who achieves a complete indistinguishability of high and low, both erased by the by the interchangeability of scatology and laughter.
For the author, this multivalence of both the work and the position of its creator has a double origin: first, in the very principle of his artistic work, and second, in his attitude towards culture as institution. In the conclusion of his study, the author attempts to grasp this relationship by means of the concept of alternative, as understood - among others - by the Czech underground.