ZAPLETAL, Miloš. Playful but Animalistically Serious: Czech Interwar Music and Sport. Czech Music Quarterly. Neuveden, No 1, p. 15-25. ISSN 1211-0264. 2018.
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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.
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Original 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 by Changed by: Miloš Zapletal, učo 2379. Changed: 26/3/2019 13:11.
Abstract
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.
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