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Music in Czech Prison System
Poskočilová, Lucie ; Zdrálek, Vít (advisor) ; Seidlová, Veronika (referee)
"Music in Czech Prison System" is an ethnomusicological study of the functioning of music in prison. The work focuses on the role of music in the everyday life of inmates and during the educational activities. It deals with the relationship of prisoners to music, musical activities in prison, and the approach of Czech Prison Service to musical activities. The aim of this master thesis is to present an image of the state of music and musical activities in the Czech prison system and to map out the forms in which the prison music appears, and to show what functions it has based on testimonies of convicts and prison staff. In prison, the environment of a so called total institution, people find themselves in extreme conditions that affect the wide range of their experiences. While imprisoned an inmate is faced with many changes that negatively affect the quality of his life. Research shows that music is a very important element for some prisoners, which can greatly influence their behavior and experience in prison and can compensate for their negative constraints. This master thesis attempts to capture whether and how convict's perceptions of music is different in an isolated environment as opposed to experiencing it outside the prison. What role does music play in the prison situation? And in what...
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Karel Velebný and His Influence on Czech Jazz Scene in the 70th and 80th of the Twentieth Century
Pudlák, Jan ; Zdrálek, Vít (advisor) ; Eben, David (referee)
This bachelor thesis is concerned with Czech jazz multiinstrumentalist, composer and pedagogue Karel Velebný. The aim of the thesis is to describe his influence on the Czechoslovak jazz scene and also to describe his impact on the following generations of Czech jazz musicians. In addition to the analysis of the discourse on Karel Velebný in Czech literature, I deal with the analysis of Karel Velebný's texts in which I follow his aesthetic values on the basis of which I elaborate a hypothesis about Velebný's idea of an ideal jazz style and the related conception of desirable and undesirable modernity in jazz. I analyse this idea and I present it as Karel Velebný's heritage to the following generations, drawing this heritage as the main trace of Karel Velebný's influence on the Czechoslovak jazz scene.
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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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Virtuosity and Performance of Masculinity: Music Ethnography of a Non-Roma Gypsy Jazz Group in Prague
Kašparová, Žofie ; Zdrálek, Vít (advisor) ; Jurková, Zuzana (referee)
Univerzita Karlova v Praze, Filozofická fakulta Ústav hudební vědy Virtuosity and Performance of Masculinity: Music Ethnography of a Non-Roma Gypsy Jazz Group in Prague Žofie Kašparová 2014 Abstract In this ethnography I examine the gypsy jazz band Sylvanio Orchestra which is based in Prague, Czech Republic. This research consists largely of my observations at their performances, interviews with the band members as well as my personal experience of being a musician and a woman in this predominantly male collective. Thus, this essay is partly an autoethnography. The research focuses on a group of non-Roma musicians which play gypsy jazz music. I describe how their performances work, which consist mostly of jam sessions (participatory performance), and which mechanisms occur in these environments. Virtuosity is one of the main characteristics of the genre and is coupled with a sense of competitiveness. The group appears exclusive from the outside which might be caused by intellectual musical communication codes which outsiders cannot read and which are connected with the virtuosity typical in gypsy jazz. I suggest that virtuosity, competitiveness along with other characteristics of gypsy jazz performance might be perceived as masculine. Finally, I try to explain the dominance of men in gypsy jazz. key words:...
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Women Pianists at the Prague Conservatory during the First Czechoslovak Republic
Koščíková, Kristína ; Zdrálek, Vít (advisor) ; Ottlová, Marta (referee)
This thesis follows engagement of female pianists at Prague Conservatoire during the period of the First Czechoslovak Republic. The catalouge of newspapers and magazines articles excerpts which is stored in archive of the Prague Conservatoire became an important source in the understanding of how these women were viewed. These excerpts are for the most part of Prague provenience and they contain reference of Prague Conservatoire events or performances of its students. A detailed analysis of articles excerpts which review perfomances of piano playing students is a very important part of this thesis. The historical context of female pianist perception is crucial in viewing these women, so thesis also follows female education during the 19th and the begginning of the 20th century in Czech enviroment.
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Mirko Očadlík and His Music Criticism in the Journal "Klíč"
Tříletý, Petr ; Gabrielová, Jarmila (advisor) ; Zdrálek, Vít (referee)
This thesis deals with music criticism of musicologist and music critic Mirko Očadlík (1904-1964) which he published in years 1930-1934 in the journal "Klíč" that was for the most of its existence edited by himself. The thesis analyses the basic position of Očadlík's critical judgements and places it as well as his whole publishing activities in historical context. Powered by TCPDF (www.tcpdf.org)
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Mapping the Individual Musical Experience in Post-Apartheid South Africa: A Bio-Ethnography of Township Dweller Lesiba Samuel Kadiaka
Zdrálek, Vít ; Matoušek, Vlastislav (advisor) ; Lucia, Christine Elizabeth (referee) ; Horáková, Hana (referee)
The dissertation is a biographical ethnography of an individual, ordinary musician and Mamelodi township dweller, Lesiba Samuel Kadiaka (*1962) in South Africa. It is based largely on fieldwork totalling more than 12 months conducted in five periods over six years between 2006 and 2011. It examines the possibilities of studying an average (rather than 'leading') musician ethnographically and their implications and consequences for wider ethnomusicological and South African music research. It makes a practical contribution to the wider debate about the relationship between individual, social, and cultural structures, and breaks new ground in its focus on the previously little known music and practices of Mr. Kadiaka's church, the Zion Christian Church. The research consisted mainly of ethnographic observations of various kinds of musical activities in which Mr. L. S. Kadiaka was involved in as a solo musician (songwriter and song singer) and as a member of the ZCC, on the one hand, and of deep interviews over the time span of six years, on the other. It consists of a biographical part dealing with his narratives about childhood in rural Ga-Mphahlele and his later life in Mamelodi township. Iconographic historical sources of a private nature are use too. The second part describes in three large...
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