Jazz in Czech Culture - JMM033

• Title: Jazz in Czech Culture
• Guaranteed by: Department of North American Studies (23-KAS)
• Faculty: Faculty of Social Sciences
• Actual: from 2015 to 2015
• Semester: summer
• E-Credits: 4
• Examination process: summer s.:
• Hours per week, examination: summer s.:1/1, MC [HT]
• Capacity: 20 / 20 (20)
• Min. number of students: unlimited
• 4EU+: no
• Virtual mobility / capacity: no
• State of the course: taught
• Language: English
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Teaching methods: full-time
• Note: course can be enrolled in outside the study plan; enabled for web enrollment; priority enrollment if the course is part of the study plan
• Guarantor: doc. PhDr. Miloš Calda
• Teacher(s): doc. PhDr. Miloš Calda

Annotation

Last update: CALDA (27.10.2004)

The aim of the course is to show, exemplified on jazz, the penetration of American culture into Czechoslovakia during the 20th century. The reception of jazz will offer to students broader perspectives like the impact of various historical events on Czech culture, the problem of racism, the encounter of the Czech cultural environment with the result of cultural mixing in a previously remote region, the role of propaganda and antipropaganda. reactions to jazz in various periods tell a lot about the society of the time. The course will include many sound examples of American, Czech and SLovak jazz.

Literature

Last update: CALDA (27.10.2004)

L. Dorůžka-I. Poledňák, Československý jazz, Praha 1967

J. Kotek, Kronika české synkopy, Praha 1975

as well as other items provided by the teacher

recommended:

E.F.Burian, Jazz, Praha 1928

Vladimír Polívka, Hudební Amerika, Praha 1949

V. Gorodinskij, Hudba duševní bídy, Praha 1951

materiály poskytnuté Jazzovou sekcí/Artforum

dobový tisk, ilustrační zvukové záznamy

Requirements to the exam

English

Last update: CALDA (02.03.2013)

1. regular attendance (you may miss the maximum of 3 lectures per term)
2. submission of a paper by the last week of the Summer Term. NO PDF FILES!

Co představuje plagiát?

(A) Použití veškerých citovaných textů v seminárních a kvalifikačních pracích musí splňovat tyto podmínky: (1) začátek a konec citované pasáže musí být opatřeny uvozovkami; (2) citujeme-li z periodik či knih, je nutno uvést - zpravidla v poznámce pod čarou nebo vysvětlivce - autora, název díla, rok vydání a stránku, z níž je citováno; (3) v případě citací z internetových zdrojů je nutno uvést full internetovou adresu, na níž lze citovaný text dohledat, a datum návštěvy internetové stránky.

(B) Pokud budou v uvedených pracích zjištěny přejaté texty bez výše uvedených náležitostí, bude práce považována za plagiát a předána Disciplinární komisi FSV UK. 

Academic fraud

(A) Any use of quoted texts in seminar papers and theses must be acknowledged. Such use must meet the following conditions: (1) the beginning and end of the quoted passage must be shown with quotation marks; (2) when quoting from periodicals or books, the name(s) of author(s), book or article titles,  the year of publication, and page from which the passage is quoted  must all be stated in footnotes or endnotes; (3) internet sourcing must include a full web address where the text can be found as well as the date the web page was visited by the author.

(B) In case the use of any texts other than those written by the author is established without proper acknowledgement as defined in (A), the paper or thesis will be deemed plagiarized and handed over to the Disciplinary Commission of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

Syllabus

Last update: CALDA (27.10.2004)

Jazz in independent Czechoslovakia after 1918

Jazz and 20th-century serious music (Martinů, Schulhoff, Stravinskij, Ježek, Weill)

The Liberated Theater (Voskovec, Werich, Ježek), E. F. Burian, K. Teige, A. Hoffmeister

Jazz and swing music in the 2nd decade of independence

Jazz under the Nazi rule: \"entartete Kunst\"

Brief comeback: 1945-48

Jazz under the communist rule: \"music of spiritual poverty\"

Protracted rebirth after 1956

The Golden 1960s

Post-1968 Normalization: The Jazz Section