Samson, wake up! Musical Prague and our recollections
Samson, wake up! Musical Prague and our recollections

Summary/Abstract: The article, based on the long-term research of music events in contemporary Prague, aims to find the ways whereby various Prague communities remember their pasts through music. The theoretical background comes from Jan Assmann (2011), according to whom communities are bound together by the co-called connective structure; its time dimension can be understood as a way of remembrance. In the first part of the article, the author aims to elaborate an analytical approach providing a categorization of types - "modalities" - of recollection. In the second part, three such modalities created by different communities are presented: an official modality of "national heroes", the dynamic modality of the underground, and the nostalgic modality of "the children of a socialist paradise".

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