Publication details
Sport a česká meziválečná hudba : úvod do problematiky
| Title in English | Sport and Czech Interwar Music : An Introduction |
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| Authors | |
| Year of publication | 2016 |
| Type | Article in Periodical |
| Magazine / Source | Opus musicum |
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| Citation | |
| Field | Art, architecture, cultural heritage |
| Keywords | sport and music; avant-garde music; music and representation; Czech inter-war music; music of the 1920s; music and sport |
| Description | A short but significant wave of reflections and representations of sport and physical education in Czech art music of the 1920s and 1930s was a historically symptomatic musical and, broader, cultural phenomenon, which Czech musicology has not comprehensively reflected yet, so the first and, so far, the last to do so – although briefly – has been Anthony Bateman in his study Ludus Tonalis: Sport and Musical Modernism 1910–1938. In the first part of my study, I bring a brief but, at the current state of research, an exhaustive overview of musical reflections of sports in a worldwide context. The second part outlines several conceptualizations of sport and of the relation between sport and music in the interwar Czechoslovakia; I focus, particularly, on discourses of the official and the avant-garde ideologies of the First Republic. This allows me to move to the very core of the issue in the following part, and deal with musical reflections of sport in the art music of the First Republic era. In the last subchapter, I discuss relations between music and physical education, namely Sokol movement, moving closer to the edge of popular and functional music. |
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