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Date: June 2–10, 2019
Credits: 4 ECTS
Lecturers: doc. Mojca Piškor (Academy of Music, Zagreb, Croatia), David Verbuč, PhD (Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague), with additional local guest lecturers.
The summer school Music in socialism and postsocialism will provide students with a general understanding of social, cultural, political, and economic conditions of the European socialist and postsocialist states and societies, and the role of music in this regard. The class topics will be related to a variety of music cultures (art music, village music, folklore, rock, pop, and folk-pop) discussed in the context of culture and politics of socialism and/or postsocialism. Each class will be based on one or two case studies of particular music cultures form particular states.
Lectures will mostly focus on the case studies from Czechoslovakia and Yugoslavia (and their postsocialist counterparts), but will also incorporate references to other countries (e.g., Soviet Union, Poland, Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria). The main framework of analysis will be the topics of resistance (via Alexei Yurchak), memory/nostalgia (via Daphne Berdahl, and Svetlana Boym), and nationalism. Furthermore, students will have an opportunity to attend lectures by one international scholar (dr. Mojca Piškor, from Zagreb, Croatia), and several Czech academics.
In addition, we will organize a discussion with Mira Wanek from a renowned Czech rock group Už jsme doma, who will speak to us about his experiences of making and performing music in socialism and postsocialism. We will also watch relevant movies, visit local museums and institutions (e.g., National gallery; Archiv bezpečnostních složek/Archive of Security Services), and attend music concerts, related to the topic of the summer school.
Students will be required to read several academic texts before and during the summer school, and respond to them in the form of short written assignments, as well as to write a short final paper.
More info: https://fhs.cuni.cz/FHSENG-952.html#3