Our National Heroes

Music and Collective Remembering

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  • Zuzana Jurková

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3290

Klíčová slova:

Prague, collective remembering, music

Abstrakt

The following text is focused on the rise of a new, post-revolutionary (after the 1989 “Velvet Revolution”) pantheon on the Prague music scene. Two distinct modalities are discussed: a “state-supported” one, represented by the opera Toufar (the title hero of which is a priest-martyr of the Communist regime), and a subversive one, represented by the musical Velvet Havel! The ethnographic descriptions show both similarities in the music forms and languages, and a distinctiveness regarding the stakeholders. Through interviews with the authors of the presented works, the driving forces behind the rise of music representations are revealed, and the basic premises of contemporary collective memory studies about its constructed nature and about its collective-identity-forming character are confirmed.

Biografie autora

Zuzana Jurková

is the chair of the Department of Anthropological Studies and the head of the Ethnomusicology Programme at the Faculty of Humanities of Charles University, Prague. The programme focuses mainly on research on the music of minorities and on urban ethnomusicology. Her specialisation is the music of Roma and music as a medium of memory. The following titles are also topics of publications she has written and edited: Voices of the Weak 2009; Sounds from the Margins 2013; To Touch the World 2013; Prague Soundscapes 2014; Crossing Bridges 2015; Hledání modalit hudebního vzpomínání [The Quest for Modalities of Musical Remembrance] 2017, Romani Musicians in the 21st Century 2018…

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Publikováno

2018-07-01

Jak citovat

Jurková, Z. (2018). Our National Heroes: Music and Collective Remembering. Lidé města, 20(2), 325-352. https://doi.org/10.14712/12128112.3290

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