Grantor: CAS, Strategy AV21
Duration: 2022–2024
Grantee: Institute of Art History of the CAS
Principal Investigator: David Vondráček
All European societies had to respond to upheavals, wars and crises of the twentieth century, revealing both parallels and differences in their reactions. In changing political systems—including the Nazi terror as well as State Socialism—musicians, composers and audiences either sought to maintain their autonomy or opened themselves up to political agitation. The project aims to explore how aspects of autonomy and agitation are reflected in the compositional practice and in music making. Of particular interest is the question of the interdependencies between (seemingly autonomous) art and society in a changing world. To this end, a sometimes neglected repertoire is analyzed from a comparative perspective, including the fields of popular music, music theater and everyday culture. So far, the program has encompassed:
The results of the workshop are videos, available on the institute’s Youtube channel
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