This year, we are organizing anethnomusicology summer school on Romani music with the main topic Doing Research on and with Romani Musicians: Methodological and Representational Considerations.
This one-week course will be organized in the framework of the Khamoro Romani Festival, at the Faculty of Humanities, Charles University, Prague, and is intended for local and international university students. The summer school is set to be organized in-person.
Academic year: 2024/2025
Teaching method: Full-time
Language of instruction: English
Date: May 26 - May 31, 2025
Application deadline: March 15, 2025
Course fee: 100 EUR
Charles University students, and Erasmus students at Charles University who wish to attend must enroll in the course in the SIS.
In the morning lectures, students will become acquainted with the main areas in which Roma participated in the creation of distinctive music styles. Moreover, we will discuss methodological and representational considerations, connected with research of and with Romani musicians. These discussions will reveal more general features of minorities’ music(s). Film screenings and workshops will be held in the afternoons. In the evenings, students will attend festival concerts. The course will be led by prof. Zuzana Jurková, FHS UK, with guest lecturer prof. Carol Silverman, University of Oregon, USA and dr. Kinga Povedák (University of Szeged).
Guarantor:
Contact person: Mgr. Nikola Skladanova
E-mail:
Credits: 4
Lecturers: doc. Zuzana Jurková with guest lecturer and prof. Carol Silverman, University of Oregon, USA
A five-day seminar for students at all levels on how to make music with the sounds and structures of the natural world. We will review the music and writings of others who have worked in this way, and go out in the field listening with our ears, and our technologies, then return to the classroom and studio to work in our own diverse ways, culminating in an informal performance for the group and for the public. The course will be taught by hosting profesor David Rothenberg, New Jersey Technological University, USA, in collaboration with doc. Zuzana Jurková, Phd, and Oldřich Poděbradský, PhD., FHS UK.
Academic year: 2024/2025
Teaching method: Full-time
Language of instruction: English
Date: June 2 - June 6, 2025
Application deadline: March 15, 2025
Course fee: 100 EUR
Charles University students, and Erasmus students at Charles University who wish to attend must enroll in the course in the SIS.
DAY 1: Introduction to the connection between natural sound and music. We will listen to musical examples, nature sounds, figure out how they connect. The day will be divided between listening indoors, then going outside as well. (Every day will have a mix)
DAY 2: The story of the soundscape. We will study the work of R. Murray Schafer and how he influenced the way we listen to the landscape, and pass judgments about it. We do some soundwalking.
DAY 3: How the use of nature in music has changed over the last decades. What difference technology makes. We will discuss our reading. On this day we also explore the freetware Audacity and how it can be used to manipulate natural sounds. We go outside and RECORD sounds and learn how to work with them in creative ways.
DAY 4: We continue in our discussions, walking, listening, and recording. We develop our skills re Audacity.
DAY 5: We work on our own musical projects, in groups, and at the end of the day, present them in a concert.
NOTE: these activities could be divided differently among the five days
Guarantor:
Contact person: Mgr. Nikola Skladanova
E-mail:
Credits: 4
Lecturers: doc. Zuzana Jurková with guest lecturer and prof. David Rothenberg, New Jersey Technological University, USA
Charles University
Faculty of Humanities
Pátkova 2137/5
182 00 Praha 8 - Libeň
Czech Republic
