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Who SIngs Jewish? Voice as a Vehicle of Performing Jewish Identities in Prague Synagogues and Prayer Rooms
Seidlová, Veronika ; Jurková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Fontánová, Anna (referee)
The aim of this mainly musical anthropology research is to describe, analyze and to interpret the process of searching for Jewish identity through the changes of Jewish religious music in Prague and through the positions taken by its participants . During the last centuries, the Jewish ritual music has gone through changes which have been depending on what did it mean to be a Jew at that time - what did the actors want to be and how did they fullfil this idea through the performance. Especially striking change happened to the synagogue music in Prague during the post-Socialist period. Attention is paid to the social-historical context of different types of ritual music design, to the period aesthetic ideals and to the conflicts about what is the real Jewish music performance. All these phenomenons show the deeper social negotiation of the community members about the poignant question, how to be a right Jew and how to integrate the components of one's identity at the same time. The ethos of the particular time periods are also demonstrated by personal histories of some Prague synagogue singers leading the worship (the so-called chazanim or cantors). The research combines the qualitative ethnographic attitudes of social and historical anthropology and anthropology of music.
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The Jan Deyl Conservatory and the Secondary School for the Visually Impaired in Prague: The "Deylak" Subculture as Motivation for the Given Students to Pursue a Music Career
Libánská, Alena ; Jurková, Zuzana (advisor) ; Heřmanský, Martin (referee)
This thesis deals with the Conservatory of Jan Deyl in Prague and its students and absolvents. The Conservatory of Jan Deyl is a Special High School for people with visual handicap and it is the only one of its kind in Czech Republic. The Conservatory leads its students to the future profession as a teacher of music. At times, there is a tendency of absolvents to lose their interests in being a teacher of music and a lot of them tend to choose other professions such as informatics, massages or languages, but not music. Even though there are still some people who stay truth to music teaching, they often end up working in a smaller town. In the beginning of my research I wanted to discover that strange subculture, as an Ethnologist discovers culture of primitive civilizations. A field research took one school year (2006/2007), during which I spend time around the school to discover the environment and to familiarize with blind people and their daily habits. On the basis of observation I came up with my aims and my research question: 'How does Conservatory motivate its students to study music and to become professional musicians in their future lives?' My research is based on participating, observation and interviews with students and absolvents of the Jan Deyl Conservatory. I focused more closely on blind...
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