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Lecturer(s)
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Course content
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Thematic areas: General theory (periodization, terminology, theoretical reflection of Czech popular music, key figures and works, the emergence of musicological discipline Theory and history of popular music). History, musical analysis, aesthetics (swing, jazz, rock and roll, art rock, jazz rock, alternative and underground, pop music, popular music variety show, music of cabarets and theatres of small forms, popular musical melodrama, synthesis of swing type popular music with rock, etc.). Institutional and organizational background of Czech popular music (music publishing, art agencies, festivals, Bratislavská lyra, Jazzová univerziáda, Děčínská kotva, etc.). Political contexts of Czech popular music (indigenous jazz and the state cultural policy of the fifties, Czech pop music in 1968 and 1969, rock and the state cultural policy in the so-called normalization, etc.). Social and sociological contexts of Czech popular music (popular music culture of the tramp movement, rockers, disco, rural dance parties, etc.).
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Learning activities and teaching methods
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Lecture
- Attendace
- 26 hours per semester
- Homework for Teaching
- 100 hours per semester
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Learning outcomes
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The aim of the course is to understand the important moments in the history of Czech popular music of the twentieth century. Through the selected chapters and case studies, students will be acquainted with the historical, aesthetic, general as well as music-theoretical issues of specific musical styles (tramp song, swing, rock and roll, art rock, pop music, party sound, etc.). Selected music phenomena will not be explained in isolation; they will be consistently placed within a broader social, cultural, political, economic and another contexts. The course is mainly based on a holistic and synthetic conception of popular music history. It looks for cultural, social, culture political, but also for the style-genre and other connections or common denominators between relatively distant historical eras of music (simultaneous interpretation of popular music issue of the so-called golden decades: the twenties and sixties of the twentieth century, common principles of political bans of popular music in the period of the First Republic and the communist era, especially during the so-called normalization, etc.). Students will be acquainted with the key areas of Czech popular music; they will learn to reflect musical phenomena in a broader context and enhance the ability of synthetic thinking.
Students will gain knowledge of the key personalities, styles, and other phenomena of Czech popular music of the twentieth century. They will realize the diversity of Czech popular music, understand its differences from foreign models, and also learn to think of popular music as a cultural-historical, and not only a musical fact.
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Prerequisites
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Student should be generally acquainted with the history of music, aesthetic and sociological categories.
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Assessment methods and criteria
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Written exam
Attendance, thorough knowledge of literature and the issues discussed in the course of the lectures, at least 70% in the final exam test.
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Recommended literature
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BLÜML, Jan. (2017). Progresivní rock: světová a československá scéna ve vybraných reflexích. Praha.
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Kotek, J. (1998). Dějiny české populární hudby a zpěvu: (1918-1968). Praha: Academia.
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Kotek, J. (1990). O české populární hudbě a jejích posluchačích: od historie k současnosti. Praha: Panton.
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Matzner, A., Poledňák, I., & Wasserberger, I. (1983). Encyklopedie jazzu a moderní populární hudby. [Díl 1]. Část věcná. Praha: Supraphon.
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Vaněk, M. (2010). Byl to jenom rock and roll?: hudební alternativa v komunistickém Československu 1956-1989. Praha: Academia.
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