FLAŠAR, Martin. The twilight of novelists. The search for a multidimensional model of contemporary musical biography. In Music Biography Conference, Institute of Musical Research, University of London. 2015.
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Original name The twilight of novelists. The search for a multidimensional model of contemporary musical biography
Authors FLAŠAR, Martin (203 Czech Republic, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
Edition Music Biography Conference, Institute of Musical Research, University of London, 2015.
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Original language English
Type of outcome Presentations at conferences
Field of Study Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Country of publisher United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree is not subject to a state or trade secret
RIV identification code RIV/00216224:14210/15:00085491
Organization unit Faculty of Arts
Keywords in English music biography; music historiography; music literature; Jan Novák
Tags rivok
Tags International impact, Reviewed
Changed by Changed by: doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D., učo 40864. Changed: 30/3/2016 21:06.
Abstract
During the preparation of the biography of the exiled Czech composer Jan Novák (1921-1984), a student of Aaron Copland and Bohuslav Martinů, a certain need appeared to revoke basic questions of the structure and function of the musical biography in the early 21st century. For a description of the structures of recently published biographies on classical music, models derived from space dimensions could be used. As it turns out, many of the present biographies are structured according to the zero- (closed chapters) or one-dimensional (linear narrative) structural model. At a time of standardized hypertext (rhizomatic) structure, however, such methods of content organization cannot be considered a sufficient intellectual challenge. The contemporary reader cannot be satisfied with a merely one-dimensional linear narrative, which hardly absorbs, e.g., contextual ranges, axes of problems intersecting the production of a particular composer or detailed analyses. The architecture of contemporary biographies should respect not only the competences of the author, but also the intellectual requirements of the actual readers.
Links
MUNI/A/1179/2014, interní kód MUName: Výzkumné sondy k dějinám hudební kultury na Moravě, především v Brně, část II.
Investor: Masaryk University, Category A
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