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@article{33878, author = {Zapletal, Miloš}, article_number = {1}, keywords = {Czech music; music and sport; cultural history of sport; avant-garde music}, language = {eng}, issn = {1211-0264}, journal = {Czech Music Quarterly}, title = {Playful but Animalistically Serious: Czech Interwar Music and Sport}, volume = {Neuveden}, year = {2018} }
TY - JFULL ID - 33878 AU - Zapletal, Miloš PY - 2018 TI - Playful but Animalistically Serious: Czech Interwar Music and Sport JF - Czech Music Quarterly VL - Neuveden IS - 1 SP - 15-25 EP - 15-25 SN - 1211-0264 KW - Czech music KW - music and sport KW - cultural history of sport KW - avant-garde music N2 - 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. ER -
ZAPLETAL, Miloš. Playful but Animalistically Serious: Czech Interwar Music and Sport. \textit{Czech Music Quarterly}. 2018, Neuveden, No~1, p.~15-25. ISSN~1211-0264.
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