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Playful but Animalistically Serious: Czech Interwar Music and Sport

ZAPLETAL, Miloš

Basic information

Original name

Playful but Animalistically Serious: Czech Interwar Music and Sport

Authors

ZAPLETAL, Miloš (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution)

Edition

Czech Music Quarterly, 2018, 1211-0264

Other information

Language

English

Type of outcome

Article in a journal (not reviewed)

Field of Study

60403 Performing arts studies

Confidentiality degree

is not subject to a state or trade secret

RIV identification code

RIV/47813059:19240/18:A0000325

Organization

Filozoficko-přírodovědecká fakulta – Slezská univerzita v Opavě – Repository

Keywords in English

Czech music; music and sport; cultural history of sport; avant-garde music
Changed: 26/3/2019 13:11, Miloš Zapletal

Abstract

V originále

In 1938, philosopher and music theorist Theodor Adorno compared modern popular music (and mass "serious" music too) to sport, considering both detrimental symptoms of a dehumanised modernity, marked by "a strict differentiation from games" and an "animalistic seriousness". This essay shows that the interwar avant-garde Czech music, despite its clearly playful character, did not avoid this animalistic seriousness, nor did it avoid sport or jazz. Quite the opposite: it accepted them as important inspirations, or even allied cultural productions: new music, sport and jazz were the building blocks of the new culture.