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The Band HRISTINA and Queer Aesthetics in Today's Russian Popular Culture
Kaznacheeva, Anna ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Turek, Pavel (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on work of queer musicians in Russia during the period following the approval of the so-called gay propaganda law (2013). This law has been broadly criticized both in Russia and abroad and has notably influenced the development of domestic queer culture. The work examines social and cultural background of the post-soviet period in relation to queer aesthetics focusing on music production by the band HRISTINA as a case study. The band was founded in 2017 in Moscow. Apart from composition, singer and lyrics writer Hristina Zarembo is engaged in posting in social media on her sources of inspiration and the meanings of her music. Being a queer woman, she also comments on the issues of gender and sexuality. The work aims to study the relationship between music and text in HRISTINA's songs. Accompanying texts, comments on social media and an essay dedicated to one of the songs discussed are also part of the analysis. The analysis discovers the way the singer reflects the legacy of the early post-soviet period on behalf of her own experience of the queer. The period of the 90s is therefore taken into account as the time after the fall of the Soviet Union when an immense growth of queer aesthetics took place. The work also shows that both musicians and critics consider this...
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Global Feminism in a Local Context: The Slovak Rapper and Singer Sima
Melicharová, Klára ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Jiroutová Kynčlová, Tereza (referee)
This work focuses on the moment when globally shared elements of feminism are transferred to a local context. Through cyberspace, contemporary feminist expressions make their way from Anglo-American pop culture and hip-hop into the life and musical production of the popular Slovak rapper and singer Sima. She actively chooses those elements that work for her and her fans. Thus, feminist expressions are adapted to Slovak society through mainstream music genres - pop and rap. This work has several goals. First, to describe how exactly Sima uses these feminist aspects in her work. The second is to show the functionality of transcultural Anglo-American feminist ideas in a different environment, given that they are properly adjusted to suit local needs. Finally, the third goal is to offer a view of mainstream music as a means to conscious feminist activities. For the first part of the methodology of this work I chose a detailed comparison of global feminist expressions with feminism in Sima's work and her self-presentation on social media. The second part focuses on an analysis of audiovisual and lyrical material of a rap track and a pop song, with the goal of finding and defining specific feminist expressions. The comparison and analysis show that during the process of transculturation of new elements...
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Reception of Soviet operetta in Czechoslovakia on the example of Dunayevsky's White Acacia
Frank, Vojtěch ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Bár, Pavel (referee)
The thesis focuses on the staging of Soviet operettas in Czechoslovakia between 1946 and 1987. The import of the Soviet repertoire to Czechoslovak operetta theaters was linked to the cultural and political transformations at the outset of the communist regime in Czechoslovakia. The so-called Soviet socialist operetta would soon have been established as a model for new Czechoslovak operettas. As such, it became an important part of the repertoire which was influenced by the official polical system. The thesis surveys the progressing intensity of the import and the developing operetta genre in the Soviet Union. On the examples of Isaac Dunayevsky's operettas Free Wind and, more intensively, White Acacia, in comparison with the original versions of these operettas, it shows the tendencies of interpretation of Soviet operettas in Czechoslovakia, in the changing cultural and political context. The thesis also concerns the topic of critical perception in both cultural environments and, overall, it aspires to capture the examined topics in the widest possible contextual horizon.
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Karel Velebný and the Third Stream
Pudlák, Jan ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Šťastný, Jaroslav (referee)
This Master's thesis focuses on the specific features and phenomena in the Czech third stream in the 1960s. These specifics are identified, on the one hand, through the analysis of Karel Velebný's third streams compositions, but also through their comparison with third stream works by other Czech authors in the observed period. The resulting characteristic of the Czech third stream is then confronted with the third stream of an American author and ideological founder of this style movement, Gunther Schuller. The criterion for the inclusion of the analyzed compositions in this thesis was the presence of a certain avant-garde ambition, which, in this thesis, is understood as the use of dodecaphony or other New music compositional techniques in the context of jazz music. In the analysis, the thesis focuses on the way these compositional techniques were implemented into the structure of jazz music, but the author also observes which musical components are through this stylistic synthesis modified the most. Key words: Third stream, jazz, Karel Velebný, Pavel Blatný, Gunther Schuller
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Forman's Amadeus and the Role of Music in Film Narrative
Bazika, Tomáš ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Přádná, Stanislava (referee)
Forman's Amadeus and the Role of Music in Film Narrative Vedoucí diplomové práce (supervisor): Zpracoval (author): Mgr. Tereza Havelková, Ph.D. Tomáš Bazika studijní obor (program): Praha, July 2020 Obecná teorie a dějiny umění a kultury Abstract The subject of this thesis is a study of the ways of using the music of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart in Miloš Forman's motion picture Amadeus. In my thesis, I focus on how Amadeus employs pre-existing classical compositions to create a new, largely fictional narrative based on the life and music of Mozart. I argue that instead of applying pre-existing pieces as film music, Amadeus conceives individual scenes as well as its overall filmic structure to accommodate the music's expressive qualities and biographical associations. I engage in a conversation with relevant existing scholarship to establish a theoretical framework for a systematic interpretation of the meaning-making roles of music in Amadeus. Drawing on Claudia Gorbman's concept of diegetic, non-diegetic and metadiegetic sound categories, I apply her taxonomy to Amadeus in order to show how not only the selection and placement of music but also its relation to the diegesis determine its impact on the narrative. I propose that in its treatment of Mozart's music, Amadeus reverses the traditional hierarchy of the...
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Differences in the structure of mothers and their newborn children born in Czechia in 2014 related to the use of the IVF method
Havelková, Tereza ; Šídlo, Luděk (advisor) ; Kocourková, Jiřina (referee)
Differences in the structure of mothers and their newborn children born in Czechia in 2014 related to the use of the IVF method Abstract The work deals with the evaluation of specific aspects in mothers who became pregnant after the application of in vitro fertilization (IVF) methods in comparison with mothers who did not undergo such treatment. Apart from mothers themselves, the comparative analysis also focuses on newborn children, again distinguishing between those children who were most likely born following IVF treatment and those who were not. The analysis makes use of individual anonymized data of reported health care from the GHIC CR database for mothers who gave birth in 2014 and their newborn children. The introductory part of the work deals with the overview of the development of assisted reproduction, its success rate and the consequences associated with the development of its methods. Subsequently, data for newborn children and their mothers are analyzed on the basis of the sex of the newborn, the birth weight, the frequency of birth, the type of birth, complications of mothers and newborns during hospitalization related to childbirth, the length of hospitalization after birth and costs associated with hospitalization after birth. The aim of the work is to evaluate the resulting structural...
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Warlikowski's production of Don Carlos (Paris, 2017) and its staging of the main female characters
Sirný, Dominik ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (referee)
This bachelor thesis focuses on the French version of Verdi's opera Don Carlos in the production of the Polish opera director Krzysztof Warlikowski. The thesis makes a description of specificities and differences between the French version and the "abridged" Italian version. The main content of the thesis is a critical reading of Warlikowski's production of Don Carlos at the Paris Opéra Bastille from 2017. My concern was how Warlikowski's directorial and stage concept contributed to portraying the dramatic relationships of the main characters, especially the female "heroines" the Queen Elisabeth and Princess Eboli. Drawing on previous studies of the opera by scholars such as Peter Brooks and Roger Parker but also David J. Levin and Mary Ann Smart I offer a critical reading of Warlikowski's production Don Carlos, which is an example of contemporary staging of French version of this Verdi's opera. Key Words opera, Don Carlos, Verdi, Warlikowski, direction, production, female heroine, body, voice
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New myth, poetry and image in Czech art of 30s and 40s
Havelková, Tereza ; Klimešová, Marie (advisor) ; Magid, Václav (referee)
The diploma thesis deals with the topic of new myth in art since the end of 1920s to the February coup in 1948. The thesis focuses on the work of Josef Šíma and the artists of Groop 42 and it is based on the premise that there was a new myth emerging in both cases. This premise relies on historical sources and secondary literature and the idea is further developed in the thesis. Its structure responds to chronological order of the topics in question, which correspond to the individual chapters. Connecting link of the thesis is the personage of Josef Šíma, which was also role model for the younger artists of Groop 42. Important are also the approaches to the new myth of Václav Navrátil, Jindřich Chalupecký and Karel Teige. All of them commented on both work of Josef Šíma and the art of newly formed generation, all of them also commented on the political situation. The thesis stresses the difference between the artistic and political myth in that period and more attention to the new myth in political ideology is paid in the last chapter. This version of myth manifested itself in February 1948 by establishment of totalitarian political regime. Key words New myth, crises, revolution, symbol, Josef Šíma, Le Gand Jeu, Group 42, romanticism, Karel Hynek Mácha, Jindřich Chalupecký, Václav Navrátil, Karel...
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National Myth and Folklore Authenticity in Slovak Folklore Talent TV Show Zem spieva (2017)
Moravčíková, Dominika ; Havelková, Tereza (advisor) ; Feinberg, Joseph Grim (referee)
This master's diploma thesis discusses the mechanisms by which the Slovak public television talent show Zem spieva (2017) creates the concept of folklore perfor- mance as a means of building and expressing national identity. This thesis also discusses the mechanisms by which the show creates a platform for negotiating the criteria of high standard folklore performance which should present a consistent reconstruction of tradition. These two effects of the show Zem spieva are in this thesis perceived as conceptually conflicting: on the one hand, there are essentialist ideas about the genetic predisposition of members of the Slovak nation for folklore performance; on the other hand, there are doctrines focused on the reconstruction of the tradition on the folklore stage. These doctrines are followed by an expert jury composed of prominent members of the folklore community. This thesis argues that the concept of performing folklore on stage perceived as an intellectual problem of the reconstruction of tradition is in the show subversive and therefore gradually replaced by emotionally and patriotically defined criteria of high quality folklore performance. This preferred measure preserves cultural cohesion in terms of sa- tisfying the needs of the mass audience. Following the conflict of the mentioned...
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