Prague soundscapes / Zuzana Jurková, [authorial team head and nine others].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Jurková, Zuzana, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Czech Republic--Prague--History and criticism.

Music.

Ethnomusicology--Czech Republic--Prague.

Ethnomusicology.

Performing arts--Czech Republic--Prague.

Performing arts.

Music--Social aspects--Czech Republic--Prague.

Music--Social aspects.

Czech Republic--Prague.

Physical Description:

320 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Place of Publication:

Prague, Czech : Charles University in Prague, Karolinum Press, 2014.

Summary:

Prague Soundscapes is the first book focusing on music in Prague from other than musical-historical perspectives. It approaches musical events in present-day Prague from an ethno-musicological position, sometimes called musical anthropology. We take in, for instance, the Refufest festival, a punk concert at the Modrá vopice club, a performance of Dvorák's Rusalka at the National Theatre or accompany followers of the Hare Krishna and their procession through Prague - not just to see and "hear" their music, but also to learn who makes and listens to it and why. An abundance of photographs accompany the book's text, helping the reader become one of the participants. Prague Soundscapes is a wonderful book whose content is presented in an original and convincing manner... I feel that this will contribute significantly to the development of a new field of musical anthropology - a field that has up to this point been the home, especially in the USA, of urban ethnomusicology. Book jacket.

Contents:

Chapter 1 Listening to the music of a city 7

Listening to the music of a city 8

Writing about the music of a city, specifically Prague 17

Chapter 2 Music and identity 25

Music and identity 26

The myth of Romani music in contemporary Prague 31

Feng-yün Song Voice Painting 51

Nowruz, twice in a different way 57

"Ethnic" music for entertainment 66

Malanka, the Ukrainian ball 74

Refufest 78

What does it mean? 88

Chapter 3 Music and social stratification 93

Antonín Dvorak: Rusalka 94

Alan Lomax on music as an indicator of social complexity 106

The Makropulos Case as a semiotic experience 113

Lucid dreams of Mr. William Heerlein Lindley 127

Chapter 4 Music and rebellion 141

Benefest Vol. 1 142

Face tigers and Stillknox 150

Rock 'n' roll Rebel 153

Michel Maffesoli on Urban Nomads 162

Tom Stoppard: Rock 'n' Roll 165

Chapter 5 Music as goods 169

Film Mnága - Happy End 170

Music as Goods/Business 174

Creative Commons 183

Public Seminar of the Czech Radio Council on music program direction of Czech Radio 1 185

Deti ráje (Children of Paradise) - collective memory as business 193

Theodor Adorno on popular music and its fetishist character 198

How to Have a Number One the Easy Way 202

A Walk along the Royal Road 207

Prague Castle Concert Pearls of Czech and World Classical Music 212

Chapter 6 Electronic Dance Music 217

Electronic Dance Music 218

Loss Tekenos in the Cross Club 223

History of Electronic Dance Music 328

Andelka Free Party 231

Syllabus - Psychedelic Trance and Broken Beatz 239

Judith Becker on music and trance 249

Unlocking the groove of habit 252

Chapter 7 Music and spirituality 257

Hare Krishna Mantra in Prague streets: the sacred, music and trance 258

The Saint Wenceslas Festival 279

Thomas Turino on Music as Social Life 292

Gospel Workshop 295.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

8024625156

9788024625157

OCLC:

874098843