Czech Broadside Ballads as Text, Art, Song in Popular Culture, c.1600–1900
9789463721554
498 pages
Amsterdam University Press
Overview
This landmark collection makes a major contribution to the burgeoning field of broadside ballad study by investigating the hitherto unexplored treasure-trove of over 100,000 Central/Eastern European broadside ballads of the Czech Republic, from the 16th to the 19th century. Viewing Czech broadside ballads from an interdisciplinary perspective, we see them as unique and regional cultural phenomena: from their production and collecting processes to their musicology, linguistics, preservation, and more. At the same time, as contributors note, when viewed within a larger perspective—extending one’s gaze to take in ballad production in bordering lands (such as Germany, Poland, and Slovakia) and as far Northwest as Britain to as far Southwest as Brazil—we discover an international phenomenon at work. Czech printed ballads, we see, participated in a thriving popular culture of broadside ballads that spoke through text, art, and song to varied interests of the masses, especially the poor, worldwide.
Author Bio
Patricia Fumerton is distinguished Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, California, and Director of the English Broadside Ballad Archive. She has edited nine collections of essays, and authored three monographs.
Pavel Kosek is full Professor of Czech Language at the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic. He has co-edited four critical editions, three collections of essays, and authored two books.
Marie Hanzelková is assistant Professor at the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech. She has published several articles about Czech hymn-books from the sixteenth century.
Formerly Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Machácková has published several journal articles about the collection of old printings of the Moravian Library and about Czech writers of the twentieth century.
Assistant Professor of Czech language at the Institute of Czech Language and Theory of Communication, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, Czech Republic, https://ucjtk.ff.cuni.cz/ustav/lide/zamestnanci/mgr-alena-andrlova-fidlerova-ph-d/. Fidlerová has edited one critical edition, three textbooks, and co-authored two books: Repertorium rukopisu 17. a 18. století z muzejních sbírek v Cechách. Part I, A–J, and Part II, K–O (2003)
Associate Professor of Czech literature in the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/91-hana-bockova. Bocková has co-edited four critical editions and authored the monograph Knihy nábožné a prosté. K nábožensky vzdelávací slovesné tvorbe doby barokní.
Director of the Ibero-American Centre of Metropolitan University in Prague and a research fellow at Complutense University in Madrid: https://www.mup.cz/en/research/research-centres/ibero-american_x0002_centre-iac/our-team/. Brezinová is author of monographs and articles that focus on the non-hegemonic processes of identification, mobilities of people and ideas within the Americas, as well as on the historical narratives of exchange and interconnectedness that the period of the Cold War helped to create between Latin America and Central Europe. In her most recent monograph entitled A Different Minority? US Latinos between Kennedy and Trump (2020), she analyzes the U.S. Latinx community in the nexus of transnational migration and citizenship
Researcher in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/11829-veronika-bromova. Bromová has authored the monograph Textová struktura nejstarších ceských listin se zvláštním zretelem k vývoji formuláre (2009).
Researcher at the National Museum and curator of the collection of broadside ballads and chapbooks and the digital library Špalícek (http://www.spalicek.net/). Bydžovská has published several articles about Czech broadside ballads and has organized two exhibitions. iva.bydzovska@nm.cz
Head of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books Department of the Moravian Library in Brno (https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books). Dufka has published several articles about the collecting and cataloguing of old printings. His most recent work (with Eva Chodejovská) is a monograph: Sberatel a jeho atlas. Bernard Pavel Moll (2021).
Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, http://www.eu.avcr.cz/cs/pracovnici/vera_x0002_frolcova/. Frolcová has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored two monographs, most recently, Velikonoce v ceské lidové kulture, 2nd ed. (2020).
Formerly Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study-rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Glombová co-edited the exhibition catalogue The Wide Road to Brno: Broadside Ballads with Secular Themes (2021).
Associate Professor in the Institute of Culture Studies, Faculty of Humanities, Nicolaus Copernicus University, Poland, https://www. researchgate.net/profile/Piotr-Grochowski-2. Grochowski is the author of several monographs and papers dealing with Polish broadside ballads, folklore and popular culture, inter alia, Straszna zbrodnia rodzonej matki: Polskie piesni nowiniarskie na przelomie XIX i XX w. (2010). Piotr.Grochowski@umk.pl
Full Professor of Czech literature at the Department of Czech Literature, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/2257-michaela-soleiman_x0002_pour-hashemi/zivotopis. Hashemi has co-edited four critical editions and two collections of essays, and she has authored two monographs: Karel Racín—nedocenený barokní autor (2005) and Literární fenomén nepomu_x0002_censké homiletiky (2007)
Researcher at the Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, http://www.eu.avcr.cz/en/about-us/ staff/marketa-holubova/. She has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored eight monographs, most recently, Etnografický atlas Cech, Moravy a Slezska IX. (2020)
Assistant Professor of Czech Literature in the Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism and Researcher at the Centre for Regional Studies, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/jakub-ivanek/8855/. Ivánek has co-edited three collections of essays and co-authored three books, most recently Horo krásná, spanilá! Poutní písne na Morave (1600–1850) (2019)
Researcher at the Department of Manuscripts and Early Printed Books, Moravian Library in Brno, https://www.mzk.cz/en/study_x0002_rooms/manuscripts-and-early-printed-books. Machová has published Three Collections of Czech Broadside Ballads 153 several journal articles dealing with the early printings in the collections of Moravian Library.
Full Professor of Czech Literature at the Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/kcl/jan-malura/12695/. Malura has co_x0002_edited three critical editions, co-edited six collections of essays, and co_x0002_authored five books, most recently Horo krásná, spanilá! Poutní písne na Morave (1600–1850) (2019).
Postdoctoral researcher at the Institute of Slavic Studies, Polish Academy of Sciences (Warsaw, Poland), https://ispan.waw.pl/default/ en/employee/maciej-metrak/. Metrak has published several journal articles about minority languages and cultures, linguistic contact in German-Slavic border areas, and Czech nineteenth-century popular literature (broadside ballads and chapbooks) from a linguistic and anthropological perspective
Assistant Professor of Czech Language in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/109306-olga-navratilova. Navrátilová has authored two books, the most recent of which is Slovosled posesivních zájmen ve staré ceštine (2018).
Full Professor of Czech Language in the Department of Czech Language, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.muni.cz/en/people/218-jana-pleskalova/zivotopis. Pleskalová has co-edited four collections of essays and authored two books: Tvorení nejstarších ceských osobních jmen (1998) and Vývoj vlastních jmen osobních v ceských zemích v letech 1000–2010 (2011).
Researcher at the Ethnographic Institute, Moravian Museum, Brno, Czech Republic, http://www.mzm.cz/etnograficky-ustav. Poláková has published several journal articles about Czech broadside ballads and popular culture and has written two monographs, the most recent of which is Dva životy, dve kultury, dve zeme. Rekové na ceském území od 2. poloviny 20. století do soucasnosti (2020). She has also been the curator of two exhibitions about Czech broadside ballads, https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=TxMF8EudGtc.
Researcher at the Institute of Musicology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Bratislava, Slovakia, http://uhv.sav.sk/ustav/vedecki-pracovnici/mgr-peter-ruscin-phd/. Rušcin has edited and co-edited two collections of essays as well as authored two monographs, the most recent of which is Cantus Catholici a tradícia duchovného spevu na Slovensku (2012). peter.ruscin@savba.sk
Researcher at the Czech Museum of Music, National Museum, Czech Republic, https://www.nm.cz/slavicky-tomas-phdr-phd. Slavický has co-edited a critical edition (Fridrich Bridelius: Jeslicky. Staré nové písnicky [2012]) as well as a collection of essays. tomas.slavicky@nm.cz
Researcher at the Regional Studies Centre in the Depart_x0002_ment of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://ff.osu.eu/katerina-smyckova/81197/#3-publikacni-cinnost. Smycková has published several journal articles about Czech hymn books and authored the monograph Krátká vecnost:Vytržení z casu v narativních textech od stredoveku na práh moderní doby (2022). katerina.smyckova@osu.cz
Researcher at the Silesian Museum and at the Centre for Regional Studies, Department of Czech Literature and Literary Criticism, Faculty of Arts, University of Ostrava, Czech Republic, https://www.osu.eu/monika-szturcova/45359/. Szturcová has published several journal articles about Czech and Polish pilgrimage broadside ballads and co-authored a book: Pod ochranu tvou se utíkáme. Kult Panny Marie Censtochovské v ceském Slezsku a na Morave/Pod twoja obrone uciekamy sie. Kult Matki Boskiej Czestochowskiej na Slasku Czeskim i na Morawach (2019)
Assistant Professor in the Department of Czech Litera_x0002_ture, Faculty of Arts, Masaryk University, Czech Republic, https://www.phil.muni.cz/en/about-us/faculty-staff/13963-marie-hanzelkova. Hanzelková has published several articles about Czech hymn books from the sixteenth century and about Czech pilgrimage broadside ballads (e.g., “‘Turning’ of Czech Pilgrimage Broadside Ballads” [2021]). marie.hanzelkova@phil.muni.cz.
Researcher at the Czech Language Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, Czech Republic, https://ujc.avcr.cz/zakladniinformace/pracovnici/timofejev-dmitrij.html. Timofejev has co-edited six electronic critical editions and co-authored the book Rukopisné zlomky Knihovny Národního muzea, signatury 1 D, 1 E a 1 G (2016)
