ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses the historical emergence of progg, its ideological and political contexts, and its development from a utopian musical, political and social movement, into a historical chronotope and musical tradition. It argues that progg, in line with ethnomusicological analyses of musical revival, has become a contemporary traditional space, that is, a room full of references and expressive resources, which you can enter again and again to explore new musical possibilities, or a "reawakened" tradition. As with all historical and musical processes, every attempt at deciding a beginning and an end is complicated, as much forming an angle of entry for the narrator, as constituting genre boundaries, canon, and historiographic convention. For literary theorist Mikhail Bakhtin, a chronotope is the interwoven totality of time and space that defines genre.
