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Musical ethnography of the creative collective SDBS
Poskočilová, Lucie ; Zdrálek, Vít (advisor) ; Kratochvíl, Matěj (referee)
This work presents the musical ethnographic research of the activities of the independent Prague-based community sdbs, which focuses on the organization of concerts and music festivals. The sdbs creative collective (that is the whole title of the group) appears at the "alternative" culture scene in the year 2010. Since then, the collective organised many concerts and music festivals, but it especially focuses on the organisation of two of them: Ruins of Intolerance and Psy-High. The sdbs collective is an intellectual group which strongly conceptualizes and theorizes its activities, a tendency that shows most prominently in the case of the two above mentioned festivals, a fact that informs my decision to focus my analysis on them During my research, I especially emphasise on the collective's activities in the field of music production. Through it, I try to understand the specific musical elements that I define as typical for this sphere of music. My endeavor is to describe specific musical activities through observation and insider experience and (based on interviews with the persons involved) to understand and interpret the mental concepts in the background of the activity being described. I use the anthropological model of Allan P. Merriam as a framework for my research, keeping track of three...
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The Carnival in Dolní Chrášťany: Music Ethnographic Research
Podroužková, Lucie ; Zdrálek, Vít (advisor) ; Kratochvíl, Matěj (referee)
4 Abstract In Dolní Chrášt'any, something that could be described as a "new tradition" has been developing in recent years. The village of Dolní Chrášt'any is located on former German territory, so most of its original inhabitants were displaced after World War II, and the continuity of the carnival celebration was interrupted. After the subsequent settlement of the village, the carnival tradition was renewed, but it did not last long and was again interrupted as the inhabitants left. It was only in the new millennium, after 2000, when new immigrants from the urban environment, mostly from Prague, began to settle in Dolní Chrášt'any. It seems that they do not strive for "authenticity" at any cost. They do not want to create an 'open-air museum' of the original carnival, but to capture the social dimension of the festival and to reflect the current state and conditions of the local community, which, although at first sight may look very distant from the original ones, in essence fulfil an identical function. It is this paradox of the clash between folk tradition and its perception by people who did not grow up in the atmosphere of village traditions that I will primarily focus on in my research. The original intention to describe the current form of the carnival in Dolní Chrášťany and to outline the links to...
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Analysing contrasting representations of folklore in the Czech Republic through the lens of participatory movements of traditional music
Perrenoud, Zoé Mathilda ; Power, Martina (advisor) ; Kratochvíl, Matěj (referee) ; Czoch, Gábor (referee)
This paper combines theoretical questions with empirical research to bring to light the vitality of folk processes in the urban modern world. The fieldwork focuses on participatory forms of traditional music. With the help of the interviews I conducted, this paper seeks (to explain) the participants' motivations for their enactment of folklore. We analyse the musicians' motivations, as well as the functions their practice of folklore fulfils, while putting the emphasis on the living dynamic and transformative creative processes of tradition. We concentrate more on the functions and forms of their enactment of folklore rather than on the aesthetic material or folklore itself. What needs do participatory forms of folklore express, especially in our urban modern world? KEYWORDS: Folklore, ethnomusicology, anthropology of music, tradition, authenticity
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Formal or Informal? Folk Music, Folklore Revival and Music Education
Kratochvíl, Matěj
Traditional folk music in the Czech Republic was usually connected with an informal way of knowledge transfer from generation to generation. Personal contacts with experienced musicians played an important role in transmission of repertoire, style, and skills to younger ones. During the 20th century and especially in its second half, with the development of the revival movement, this system changed. While some of its aspects have remained, the transmission process was strongly influenced by a formalized and institutionalized system of public music education. Music education both in grammar schools and in the network of so called “Basic schools of arts” (Základní umělecké školy), where children learn music as a hobby, has had an impact on the way traditional music is taught today. These changes include the emphasis on different aspects of musicianship, drawing inspiration from other genres of music, and a different way of organizing ensembles including a higher representation of girls in them. In my text, I am presenting findings from my own experience as well as from interviews with musicians from several generations. I am trying to demonstrate how their particular experience with learning and teaching traditional folk music has informed their approach to the way they perform, listen to and think about music.
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