Czech Music articles

Recent articles from Czech Music

Dear readers.(Editorial)(Brief article)
January 1, 2009... This issue is rather untypical--it comes with a CD that is entirely devoted to Czech popular music. Yet the "pop" on the CD is not at all the commercial globalised mainstream kind, but consists of original works of a high standard, as well as showing a wide range of styles. Still, it IS...

Michal Rataj: building a visual world without pictures.(Interview)
January 1, 2009... Michal Rataj moves with the same ease in the field of composing "classical" music (although entirely contemporary in idiom), and the world of electronic technologies and the kind of concepts of music that go far beyond the writing of black dots on paper. Because Michal is also a radio...

Twenty years of the contemporary in Czech popular music.(theme)
January 1, 2009... It is now nearly twenty years since the chinking of keys on Wenceslas Square sounded the death of a whole era in Czech history. In line with developments in the surrounding East European countries, the chain of events set off by the demonstrations in November 1989 led to the fall of communism...

How will the financial crisis affect the arts in the Czech Republic?(analysis)
January 1, 2009... All the indications are that the cultural sphere and the "creative industries" altogether will be facing lean times in the coming years, especially as concerns funding. It is therefore high time for us to be asking how the crisis will impact on music and the arts in general in the Czech...

Ladislav Mose Blum an audio document of chant in a Prague synagogue.(document)
January 1, 2009... Jewish culture found itself in a strange position in post-war Czechoslovakia. While in the 1950s the communist authorities made it very clear that they were scarcely less antisemitic than the Nazis, in subsequent decades they did not express this attitude so unambiguously. Not that their...