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Licensed Music Recordings on Nationalized Czechoslovak Market
Ferenc, Petr ; Marková, Alena (advisor) ; Štemberk, Jan (referee)
Diploma thesis Licensed Music Recordings on Nationalized Czechoslovak Market deals with a segment of music industry executed by Supraphon and Opus labels. Between 1946-1989, most foreign recordings on the nationalized music market were licensed, then multiplied and offered to listeners via the state distribution network, stores and also as Grammophone Club editions subscription. Up to now, the research only discussed licensed recordings in the context of long play records and a struggle for emancipation of rock music in socialist Czechoslovakia. This diploma thesis adds the area of classical and contemporary music and other not yet discussed genres and sound media. Collected data from approximately 700 records and cassettes are interpreted by the means of quantitative research - the provenience of licences is investigated and compared as well as the development of genre range in time, sound media preferences and the number of licensed releases published by Supraphon and Opus. Both the chapter which covers historical and aesthetic questions of licensing and the chapter which explains the technical vocabulary provide necessary context to the research. This thesis aims to help the research of licensed recordings on Czechoslovak market reach higher integrity and compactness based rather on data than...

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