Listening to the Music of a City












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            * Zuzana Jurková
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            Abstrakt

            The article consists of two parts. The first is focused on different theoretical approache
            when researching music of a city. The second part offers five topics (which merged on the 
            criteria): 1) music and the stratified and specialized society; 2) music and rebellion; 3)

            and music; 4) electronic dance music; 5) music and spirituality. In their frameworks, diff
            events and their contexts (“soundscapes”) are discussed.
            Two important features are recognized when studying Prague soundscapes.The first of them i

            various musical borders (in the concept of music, in style/genre, in the concept of musica
            other feature is the functioning of music in strengthening group identities by fostering i

            and separating them from their surroundings.

            Klíčová slova

            urban ethnomusicology; Prague; soundscape

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