Detailed Information on Publication Record
2015
The twilight of novelists. The search for a multidimensional model of contemporary musical biography
FLAŠAR, MartinBasic information
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
Other information
Language
English
Type of outcome
Prezentace na konferencích
Field of Study
Art, architecture, cultural heritage
Country of publisher
United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
Confidentiality degree
není předmětem státního či obchodního tajemství
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
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International impact, Reviewed
Změněno: 30/3/2016 21:06, doc. PhDr. Martin Flašar, Ph.D.
Abstract
V originále
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 MU |
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