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Title Prague soundscapes / Zuzana Jurková [and ten others] ; reviewed by Miloš Havelka, Speranţa Rădulescu ; translated by Valerie Levy ; proofread by Tamah Sherman and Daniel Morgan
Published [Prague, Czech Republic] : Karolinum Press, 2014
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Description 1 online resource (320 pages) : color illustrations, photographs
Contents Chapter 1 Listening to the music of a city; Listening to the music of a city; Writing about the music of a city, specifically Prague; Chapter 2 Music and identity; Music and identity; The myth of Romani music in contemporary Prague; Feng-yün Song Voice Painting; Nowruz, twice in a different way; "Ethnic" music for entertainment; Malanka, the Ukrainian ball ; Refufest ; What does it mean?; Chapter 3 Music and social stratification; Antonín Dvořák: Rusalka; Alan Lomax on music as an indicator of social complexity; The Makropulos Case as a semiotic experience
Lucid dreams of Mr. William Heerlein LindleyChapter 4 Music and rebellion; Benefest Vol. 1; Face tigers and Stillknox; Rock'n'roll Rebel; Michel Maffesoli on Urban Nomads; Tom Stoppard: Rock 'n' Roll ; Chapter 5 Music as goods; Film Mňága -- Happy End; Music as Goods/Business; Creative Commons; Public Seminar of the Czech Radio Council on music program direction of Czech Radio 1; Děti ráje (Children of Paradise) -- collective memory as business; Theodor Adorno on popular music and its fetishist character; How to Have a Number One the Easy Way; A Walk along the Royal Road
Prague Castle Concert Pearls of Czech and World Classical MusicChapter 6 Electronic Dance Music; Electronic Dance Music; Loss Tekenos in the Cross Club; History of Electronic Dance Music; Andělka Free Party ; Syllabus -- Psychedelic Trance and Broken Beatz; Judith Becker on music and trance; Unlocking the groove of habit; Chapter 7 Music and spirituality; Hare Krishna Mantra in Prague streets: the sacred, music and trance; The Saint Wenceslas Festival; Thomas Turino on Music as Social Life; Gospel Workshop; Summary; References
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 accom
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters
Notes Online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed October 21, 2014)
Subject Music -- Czech Republic -- Prague -- History and criticism
Ethnomusicology -- Czech Republic -- Prague
Performing arts -- Czech Republic -- Prague
MUSIC -- Genres & Styles -- Classical.
MUSIC -- Reference.
MUSIC / Ethnomusicology
Ethnomusicology
Music
Performing arts
Czech Republic -- Prague
Genre/Form Criticism, interpretation, etc.
Form Electronic book
Author Jurková, Zuzana, author
Havelka, Miloš, reviewer
Rădulescu, Speranța, reviewer
Sherman, Tamah, proofreader
Levy, Valerie, translator
Morgan, Daniel, 1970- proofreader.
ISBN 9788024625966
8024625962