Josef Kotek and Popular Music Research in the Czech Lands
The result's identifiers
Result code in IS VaVaI
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Result on the web
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DOI - Digital Object Identifier
<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.54759/MUSICOLOGY-2024-0103" target="_blank" >10.54759/MUSICOLOGY-2024-0103</a>
Alternative languages
Result language
angličtina
Original language name
Josef Kotek and Popular Music Research in the Czech Lands
Original language description
Josef Kotek (1928–2009) was one of the founders of Czech musicological researchinto popular music. His professional career is mainly connected withthe musicological workplace of the Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences andlater the Academy of Sciences of the Czech Republic, where he worked from1962 to 1998. Kotek’s career, as well as the thematic focus of his research, wassignificantly determined by the cultural and political situation in the Czechlands at the turn of the 1950s and 1960s, when the appeal of Marxist musicologyto research so-called mass/applied genres combined with the emergenceof modern popular music and its wide social appeal. Kotek’s research was fundamentallyinfluenced by the central project of the Institute for Musicology ofthe Czechoslovak Academy of Sciences, which was assigned to the Institute bythe Central Committee of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia in the early1960s and which sought to provide comprehensive treatment of 20th centuryCzech musical culture, including so-called mass/applied genres. In this sense,from the beginning of his career, Kotek developed research activities in threemain areas: (a) the historiography of Czech popular music, anchored in rigoroussource research; (b) the sociology of popular music, focusing on questionsof the development of popular music reception and taste, with an overlapwith practical issues of musical life and music education; and (c) the generaltheory of popular music, including definitional, terminological, classificationand other issues. Kotek’s lifelong work concentrating exclusively on issues ofpopular music in the 1990s resulted in the remarkable book synthesis Dějinyčeské populární hudby a zpěvu [The History of Czech Popular Music and Singing](1994, 1998). The present study examines the above on the basis of an extensiveanalysis of available sources and takes into account the internationalsituation, in which the institutionalization of popular music research occurredunder different circumstances and with some delay.
Czech name
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Czech description
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Classification
Type
J<sub>imp</sub> - Article in a specialist periodical, which is included in the Web of Science database
CEP classification
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OECD FORD branch
60403 - Performing arts studies (Musicology, Theater science, Dramaturgy)
Result continuities
Project
<a href="/en/project/GA21-16304S" target="_blank" >GA21-16304S: The development of popular music investigation in the Czech Lands in the context of Central European culture and politics since 1945</a><br>
Continuities
P - Projekt vyzkumu a vyvoje financovany z verejnych zdroju (s odkazem do CEP)
Others
Publication year
2024
Confidentiality
S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů
Data specific for result type
Name of the periodical
HUDEBNI VEDA
ISSN
0018-7003
e-ISSN
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Volume of the periodical
61
Issue of the periodical within the volume
1
Country of publishing house
CZ - CZECH REPUBLIC
Number of pages
48
Pages from-to
73-120
UT code for WoS article
001262089800003
EID of the result in the Scopus database
2-s2.0-85191475472