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so easily. At the local level it was clear that the differences in taste were far from being unimportant (on the differences of taste and "class" see Bourdieu 1984).

The same story of decline occurred again in the seventies, when the local youth club ceased to operate. The generation, which led the venue in the sixties, grew up, got jobs, married, and, subsequently, lost interest in meeting in the club.

After a few years, however, it reappeared once more. In November 1979, the following generation of the local youth established a new club. This time it was named “Mladinski klub Trate” (The Youth Club of Trate) and, later, became the famous Disco Trate. In the eighties, the club became widely known, thanks to its radical punk orientation.

In the early eighties, the well-known local punk scene emerged in Trate with five punk rock groups, which started to rehearse in the club. Within the framework of the local branch of the socialist youth organisation they regularly organised concerts and parties. It is important to add that younger women played a major role in the club. In 1986 and 1987, when people from the leading Slovene weekly, Mladina, regularly visited Disco Fotogrupa M Trate, the local venue became nationally known and important.

First punk rock groups in the area were established in 1979, in the villages of Trate and Selnica ob Muri (Butli and Masakr). In 1984, after they split up, the leading group from the scene in Trate, CZD (Center za dehumanizacijo - Centre for Dehumanisation), was established. The group is still active. Moreover, it became one of the legendary Slovene underground punk rock groups, regularly touring in Austria and Germany (on the group see Muršič 1995).

As might be expected, the scene in Trate declined in the early nineties. This time, the inevitable generation gap was not the only cause of its disappearance. The venue was closed due to its privatisation. In February 1994, the building of the mill was given back to the heirs of the pre-war owner. Denationalisation, as the process of the restitution of the nationalised property to the pre-war owners was known, final-