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The New America in Beat Literature:Spontaneous, Far Out, and All That Jazz
Novická, Tereza ; Armand, Louis (advisor) ; Vichnar, David (referee)
1 Thesis Abstract This thesis establishes the Beat Generation as part of the American literary canon despite its rejection of the literary establishment and academic criticism of its day. The portrayal of the American postwar zeitgeist in Beat literature is examined through the innovative literary techniques proposed by Jack Kerouac based on jazz characteristics. The revitalization of poetic and narrative form are identified in Allen Ginsberg's earliest published poetry, notably "Howl; for Carl Solomon" (Howl and Other Poems, 1956), Kerouac's novels On the Road and Visions of Cody and his long poem Mexico City Blues, respectively. The emergence and peak of the initially marginal Beat literary movement that gave rise to the affiliated beatnik subculture illustrates the tradition of avant-garde art becoming incorporated into establishment culture. The first chapter outlines the political and cultural hegemony of the conservative fifties in America with focus on cultural and historical aspects relevant and parallel to the surfacing and development of the Beat/beatnik counterculture, i.e. Cold War policies, McCarthyism, poetic movements, the emergence of bebop and its innovations. The second chapter provides an in- depth analysis of Beat writing in reference to jazz as subject-matter and as influence on both...
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Instability of Character in Sam Shepard's Work of the 1970s
Lauer, Martin ; Wallace, Clare (advisor) ; Roraback, Erik Sherman (referee)
The purpose of this thesis is to undertake a thorough analysis of Sam Shepard's approach to the character in a selection of his plays from the 1970s. Instead of approaching characters as compact entities with fixed character features the thesis focuses on their instability and changeability and attempts to ascribe characters' transformations to dynamic non-subjective forces and to identify ego-loss as a partially liberating process that nonetheless confronts the characters with the unknown and is accompanied by fear of self-loss. From the theoretical vantage point of the collaborative writings of Gilles Deleuze and Félix Guattari, the thesis equates the transformations of Shepard's characters and their inability to locate the "self" with the schizophrenic experience. As a musical genre based on variability, jazz, as well as its inherent form of expression, improvisation, are utilized as points of departure in the analysis of characters' instability in plays Suicide in Bb and Angel City. Furthermore, in Angel City, the phenomenon of film in the USA and the desire for success and fame intensified by it are perceived as instruments of manipulation and illusion, which characters easily succumb to and which severely alter their sense of reality. Moreover, the environment of filmmaking is introduced as a...
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Theatre as a free vision of the world (theatre and jazz)
Valerián, William ; PAVLATA, Michal (advisor) ; TÖPFER, Tomáš (referee)
My thesis is titled Theatre as a free vision of the world (theatre and jazz). I deal with my search for connections between music and acting artistic expression during the study, which began at the conservatory – saxophone department. From acting lessons and later works in the school theatre Disk I choose the moments that helped me to find my own „jazz“ acting approach and „liberation" on the stage and its subsequent use in later professional life.
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Sound-aesthetic conceptcs in chamber acoustic jazz
Košulič, Jan ; DVOŘÁK, Aleš (advisor) ; PINKAS, Martin (referee)
The aim of presented work is the sound - aesthetic concept recordings of chamber jazz recordings. The work defines various criteria that can be used to issue of the aesthetic concept of jazz recordings. Several selected significant, settled and success in the music market-proven aesthetic concepts are briefly analyzed. The core of the work is the practical implementation of various aesthetic concepts in recording jazz music. Qualitative research, the results of this work presents were obtained from observations supplemented by discussions in the focus group consisting of jazz musicians. The work provides information about the views of musicians on each part of the process of recording jazz music and practical experience and knowledge based on a series of jazz recording. It also deals with the issue of communication between musicians and sound engineers. A sub- goal which work fulfilled is the opening of the debate over sound - aesthetic issues among jazz musicians and sound engineers.
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DUETS IN JAZZ MUSIC. HISTORY, DEVELOPEMENT.
Uhrík, Rastislav ; SLAVÍK, Jiří (advisor) ; Nejtek, Michal (referee)
In this master ́s thesis l am trying to bring closer one very specific form of jazz
interpretation which is playing in duo and from my very personal point of view, as a bass
player, to focus on specific aspects of duo performance.
I've chosen music of Charlie Haden as the essence for the thesis, because acoustic bass
is my main instrument and also because Haden could initiate duo or rather be part of
duos in other musician ́s projects. I wanted to compare differences between specific
duos according to historical or aesthetical character.
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JAZZ QUARTETS WITHOUT HARMONIC INSTRUMENT DEVELOPMENT AND TRANSFORMATIONS FROM THE SECOND HALF OF THE 20th CENTURY TO THE PRESENT TIME
Kalfus, Petr ; SLAVÍK, Jiří (advisor) ; SOUKUP, Luboš (referee)
The aim of this diploma thesis is to describe and map the development of the phenomenon of a jazz quartet not containing a harmonic instrument and consisting of two wind instruments, a double bass, and drums from its beginnings in the second half of the 20th century to present day.
My second goal is to point out historic transformations of style and changes in the roles of individual instruments from the point of view of composition on the one hand and interpretation and interaction within the band on the other. The practical section of the thesis demonstrates these transformations by showing specific examples in transcriptions. The last but not least of my objectives is to describe how this format reflects in my own musical activities and my personal techniques of both composition and interpretation.
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Grammy Awards and winners of jazz music
Bártová, Kristýna ; RŮŽIČKA, Karel (advisor) ; MATZNER, Antonín (referee)
This thesis focuses on the categorization of music and valuation of popular music through Grammy Awards. More specifically, the thesis focuses on the categorization of jazz music and appreciation of jazz music. The text contains a detailed analysis of selected award-winning instrumental jazz albums, history and development of the genre of jazz and its influence on popular music from. In the last chapter of the thesis concerns the difference between the American and European jazz and also contains a detailed list of awarded jazz instrumental album.
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