Prague Music Worlds 2.

What past is emerging in the public space of modern-day Prague? Who are those who commemorate it through or with the help of music? The book takes the reader to theatre stages, concert platforms, clubs, and pubs to meet Václav Havel, Milada Horáková, the martyred priest Josef Toufar, protest singer-songwriter Karel Kryl, underground icon Ivan “Magor” Jirous, or the Terezín ghetto composer Gideon Klein, as well as nameless figures from the past, but also composers, performers, and other actors in remembrance. What is interesting, or even important, about this? As many researchers in the field of memory studies attest, collective remembrance is not a mirror image of the past, but an expressive statement of the interests and needs of those who remember in the present (Astrid Erll). And so, in this book, Zuzana Jurková offers a testimony about the people of Prague in the new millennium.