Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them, or, In search yet again of Czechness and Czech music

In an article in 1986, Michael Beckerman debated the meaning of "Czechness" in music; since then, it has usually been construed as a myth that has more to do with the reception of the national repertoire than with objective qualities of the music. This article proposes that the idea of &qu...

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Main Author: Geoffrey Chew
Format: Article
Language:ces
Published: Masaryk University, Faculty of Arts 2019-06-01
Series:Musicologica Brunensia
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Online Access:https://journals.phil.muni.cz/musicologica-brunensia/article/view/23953
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description In an article in 1986, Michael Beckerman debated the meaning of "Czechness" in music; since then, it has usually been construed as a myth that has more to do with the reception of the national repertoire than with objective qualities of the music. This article proposes that the idea of "Czechness" should be reconsidered, using not only ideas developed in historical musicology since the 1980s, but also more recent developments in music analysis, in order to redirect attention to "the music itself" and to reconstrue it in new and fruitful ways.
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Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them, or, In search yet again of Czechness and Czech music
Musicologica Brunensia
cultural history
Czechness
Janáček
mythology
nationalism
polka
title Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them, or, In search yet again of Czechness and Czech music
title_full Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them, or, In search yet again of Czechness and Czech music
title_fullStr Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them, or, In search yet again of Czechness and Czech music
title_full_unstemmed Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them, or, In search yet again of Czechness and Czech music
title_short Little Bo-Peep has lost her sheep, and doesn't know where to find them, or, In search yet again of Czechness and Czech music
title_sort little bo peep has lost her sheep and doesn t know where to find them or in search yet again of czechness and czech music
topic cultural history
Czechness
Janáček
mythology
nationalism
polka
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