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Aleš Opekar

PhDr. Aleš Opekar, PhD.

Department of Musicology

phone: +420 220 303 936
e-mail: opekar@udu.cas.cz

Researcher at the Department of Musicology.

Aleš Opekar studied Czech language and music education at the Faculty of Arts, Charles University (PhDr. 1987, CSc. 1993). Between 1990 and 1998, he worked as a researcher at the Institute of Musicology, CAS and from 1999 to 2018 as program director for jazz and popular music on Czech Radio's Vltava station where he created a number of specialized music programs. As an expert adviser and scriptwriter, he collaborated with Czech Television on various documentary series, such as Bigbít (1999) and PopStory (2016 and 2020). Since 2006, he has been teaching popular music and world music at the Department of Musicology at the Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University in Brno and since 2016, he has also been teaching at the Academy of Performing Arts in Prague. In 1998, he founded the civic organization Museum and Archive of Popular Music (now Popmuseum, z. s.), of which he is the chairman. In 2019, he began to work at the IAH CAS as a researcher focusing on theory and history of popular music.

Research outputs (selection):

Aleš Opekar, Regionalistická historiografie českého rocku a její nové přírůstky, Hudební věda 2, 2020, pp. 210–230.

Aleš Opekar, Bůh si zakryl tvář. Náboženské odkazy v nenáboženských významech textů v české populární hudby, in: Irena Přibylová – Lucie Uhlíková (edd.). Od folkloru k world music: Hudba a spiritualita. Náměšť nad Oslavou 2019, pp. 226–245.

Aleš Opekar, O něčem i o ničem. Písňové texty v české populární hudbě jako paměť společnosti, in: Přibylová Irena – Uhlíková Lucie (edd.), Od folkloru k world music: O paměti. Náměšť nad Oslavou 2018, pp. 205–229.

Aleš Opekar, [12 encyklopedických hesel], in: Paolo Prato, David Horn (Edd.): Bloomsbury Encyclopedia of Popular Music of the World, Volume XI. Genres: Europe. New York, London, Oxford, New Delhi, Sydney 2017, pp. 182–183, 192–195, 445–447, 460–462, 470–471, 484–486, 572–576, 652–654, 733–735, 754–755, 778–780, 793–804.

Aleš Opekar, Opus nula. Juvenilie a jejich potenciál na příkladu Lenky Dusilové, in: Přibylová Irena – Uhlíková Lucie (edd.), Od folkloru k world music. Náměšť nad Oslavou 2016, pp. 197–216.

Aleš Opekar, „Jazz není mrtev, jen podivně zapáchá.“ Frank Zappa a jazzová hudba. Kořeny české zappománie a Zappovske ohlasy v české hudbě, in: Vladimír Papoušek – David Skalický (edd.), Fenomén Zappa. Praha 2016, pp. 79–82 a 103–109.

Aleš Opekar, Lehké decibelové průsaky skrze těžce železnou oponu, in: Petr Hlaváček – Michal  Stehlík (edd.), Rozdělený svět? Evropa a Češi mezi svobodou a totalitou, Praha 2016, pp. 121–131.

Aleš Opekar, Hudba Kapverdských ostrovů aneb Tcheka na Fogu a jiné nestrojenosti, in: Přibylová Irena – Uhlíková Lucie (edd.), Od folkloru k world music, Náměšť nad Oslavou 2015, pp. 166–189.

Aleš Opekar, Karel Kryl písničkář, in: Ivana Denčevová – Michal Stehlík (eds.), Fenomén KK, Praha 2014, pp. 90–122.

Aleš Opekar, The Matadors. Beatová aristokracie z Prahy, Ústí nad Orlicí 2007.

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