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In a collection of essays from prominent music scholars both in the Czech Republic and abroad, this book provides a nuanced overview of major topics connected to the history of musical culture in the Czech lands (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia) from the Middle Ages to the present. Whereas most previous English-language musicological scholarship on the Czech lands focused solely on music that was understood as ethnically Czech, this book also considers musical cultures of non-Czech groups that lived, and sometimes still live, in the geographical area, most importantly people of German, Jewish, and Romani backgrounds. Spanning over a thousand years, this book combines innovative approaches to present nuanced perspectives on a complicated musical tradition. Not only is such an inclusive overview of music in the Czech lands unprecedented, but there is also no other English-language survey of the region's musical developments, and, for that matter, there are no English-language surveys of the history of specifically Czech music either.
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Table of contents; List of musical examples; List of figures; List of tables; Acknowledgements; Introduction; Part I. Before 1800: 1. Medieval traditions of plainchant in Bohemia Hana Vlhová-Wörner; 2. Medieval music and Czech national identity Viktor Velek; 3. Liturgical music of the Bohemian reformation Martin Horyna; 4. Music at the royal and imperial court in Prague Erika Honisch; 5. Music in the Catholic reformation of seventeenth-century Bohemia Geoffrey Chew; 6. Music in Bohemian royal coronations and opera in Prague in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries Marc Niubò; 7. Aristocratic patronage of music in the Bohemian crownlands: a series of vignettes Jana Perutková; 8. The Bohemian Kapellknaben ensemble of Dresden's Catholic court church Janice Stockigt; Part II. The 'Long' Nineteenth Century: 9. Bohemian public music institutions and national politics Martin Nedbal; 10. The emergence of Czech national opera tradition in the nineteenth century Ji¿í Kopecký; 11. Women and opera in the Czech lands Judith Mabary; 12. Bohemian salon culture in 1820s and 1830s Teplice Anja Bunzel; 13. 'The Very Bosom of our Nation': the dialectic of folk and art music in Bed¿ich Smetana's Hubi¿ka and Dv¿ vdovy Christopher Campo-Bowen; 14. Choral music and modernity in the Bohemian crownlands in the nineteenth century Karel Šima; 15. Symphonic music in nineteenth-century Czech lands Eva Branda; 16. The politics of Bohemian music criticism and historiography from the late eighteenth to the late twentieth century Martin Nedbal and Kelly St. Pierre; 17. Public music education and the Prague conservatory Lenka K¿upková; Part III. The Twentieth Century and Beyond: 18. The mutual exclusion society: musicology and criticism in early twentieth-century Prague Brian Locke; 19. Janá¿ek's Jen¿fa and operatic modernism Ji¿í Zahrádka; 20. Avant-garde aspects of Czech interwar music Miloš Zapletal; 21. The Jewish musical experience in the Czech lands Michael Beckerman; 22. Czechoslovak musicians in North American exile Brian Locke and Martin Nedbal; 23. Categorizing music, classifying people: music research and race studies in the Czech lands Kelly St. Pierre; 24. The nation's image in songs: folk music research and revival in the twentieth century Mat¿j Kratochvíl; 25. Romani music in the Czech Republic Zuzana Jurková; 26. Decolonial resonances in Czech opera after 1948 Tereza Havelková; 27. Jazz as sound for the stage: the liberated theater and its progeny David Vondrá¿ek; 28. Understanding Czech rock from the period of normalization Jan Blüml; 29. Czech film music Aleš B¿ezina; 30. Czechs in search of Slovak music Vladimír Zvara; 31. Twentieth-century Czech female composers in cultural and political context: the pre-1989 music of Ivana Loudová and Sylvie Bodorová Miriam Blümlová; 32. Czech classical music in a global world: Jakub Hr¿ša in conversation with Aleš B¿ezina Aleš B¿ezina and Jakub Hr¿ša; Bibliography.
