Musicologica 1/2010

The article is focusing on aesthetics and music poetry of hit production in contemporary pop music. It is examining its

The work deals with the development of jazz-rock style in Slovakia from the post-modern period to present times. It reflects

At the beginning of the 1980s the mainstream orientation of Slovak jazz predominated. In the second half of the 80s

In this study we are discussing an important figure in Slovak jazz history – the pianist Ladislav Gerhardt. From the historical

Jazz life in Czechoslovakia was marked by denying artistic freedom in choices of genres and styles where communist ideology determined

During the Cold War, a myth of freedom in jazz was fed by American political power, as well as by