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Music and Migration:
Contribution to the history
of Czech modern music (1870–1945)
Lubomír Spurný
Masarykova univerza
Masaryk University
Purely Czech (meaning national) musical culture with all the attributes
that belong to it began arising after 1860. Its development is a chronicle of
continuous, often disputative encounters of different ideological streams. A
significant development of Czech music is accompanied by democratiza-
tion and nationalization of the bourgeois environment. Therefore, the year
1870 represents the bottom outline of the historic period this paper is fo-
cused on. This historical period then ends with the year 1945. The reason is
obvious: The Second World War and the subsequent social turbulence gave
the Czech culture a completely new character. I would like to document
some cases of usage of the term migration in this period.
Here a small digression. Throughout various kinds and focuses of mu-
sicological texts we will find many different uses of the term migration.
(When assessing the whole situation it also depends on the point of view. We
can therefore talk about emigration or immigration.) The field of migration
theories includes certain practices in musical folklore, ethnomusicology and
studies of hymnologic materials (archetype, classification). Historiography
connects the term migration with studies of musical cultural aspects. It has
become customary to record migration routes used by musicians to move
between the aristocratic residences and cultural centres. Czech and foreign
musicological literature often describes so-called Czech musical emigration
of the 18th century associated with Mannheim, Berlin and Vienna.
Historical works from the 18th and 19th century provided us plenty of
valuable material for discussions about the history of cultural transfers.
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Contribution to the history
of Czech modern music (1870–1945)
Lubomír Spurný
Masarykova univerza
Masaryk University
Purely Czech (meaning national) musical culture with all the attributes
that belong to it began arising after 1860. Its development is a chronicle of
continuous, often disputative encounters of different ideological streams. A
significant development of Czech music is accompanied by democratiza-
tion and nationalization of the bourgeois environment. Therefore, the year
1870 represents the bottom outline of the historic period this paper is fo-
cused on. This historical period then ends with the year 1945. The reason is
obvious: The Second World War and the subsequent social turbulence gave
the Czech culture a completely new character. I would like to document
some cases of usage of the term migration in this period.
Here a small digression. Throughout various kinds and focuses of mu-
sicological texts we will find many different uses of the term migration.
(When assessing the whole situation it also depends on the point of view. We
can therefore talk about emigration or immigration.) The field of migration
theories includes certain practices in musical folklore, ethnomusicology and
studies of hymnologic materials (archetype, classification). Historiography
connects the term migration with studies of musical cultural aspects. It has
become customary to record migration routes used by musicians to move
between the aristocratic residences and cultural centres. Czech and foreign
musicological literature often describes so-called Czech musical emigration
of the 18th century associated with Mannheim, Berlin and Vienna.
Historical works from the 18th and 19th century provided us plenty of
valuable material for discussions about the history of cultural transfers.
277
