A History of Music in the Czech Lands

A comprehensive and nuanced history of musics in present-day Czech Republic from the Middle Ages to the twenty-first century.

An overview of major topics connected to the history of musical culture in what is now the Czech Republic. Whereas most previous musicological scholarship focused on music that was understood as ethnically Czech, this book also considers German, Jewish, and Romani musics from the region.In a collection of essays from prominent music scholas both in the Czech Republic and abroad, this book provides a nuanced overview of major topics connected to the history of musical culture in the Czech lands (Bohemia, Moravia, and Silesia) from the Middle Ages to the present. Whereas most previous English-language musicological scholarship on the Czech lands focused solely on music that was understood as ethnically Czech, this book also considers musical cultures of non-Czech groups that lived, and sometimes still live, in the geographical area, most importantly people of German, Jewish, and Romani backgrounds. Spanning over a thousand years, this book combines innovative approaches to present nuanced perspectives on a complicated musical tradition. This is the first overview of music in the Czech lands to provide such an inclusive view of the region's musical developments.