Reconsidering the Activities of the Jazz Section in "Normalized" Czechoslovakia

2017 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 26370390
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Scientific Research (C)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Section: 一般
• Research Field: European literature
• Research Institution: Tokyo Metropolitan University
• Principal Investigator: Akatsuka Wakagi 首都大学東京, 人文科学研究科, 教授 (80404953)
• Project Period (FY): 2014-04-01 – 2018-03-31
• Keywords: 表象文化論 / 音楽文化論 / 東欧文化 / ジャズ / 現代アート / 比較文化 / ポピュラー音楽 / 美術史

Outline of Final Research Achievements

In Czechoslovakia during the "normalization" era, in which artists and their works that did not comply with the then cultural policy were not officially approved, the Jazz Section of the Musicians' Union made efforts to disseminate the undesirable artists' works as legitimate and official ones until the Jazz Section’s forced dissolution. This study has examined the activities of the Jazz Section, which includes not only music but also other fields of art, such as literature, theatre, fine and plastic arts, elucidating the circumstances of art at the time.

Free Research Field

表象文化論、映像文化論、比較文学