Jiří Černý... na bílém 5 - Hudební publicistika 1995-1999 – Černý Jiří (2018)

Jiří Černý... on white is an authorized comprehensive edition of the music journalism of Jiří Černý (* 1936). His sixty years of journalistic practice and half a century of continuous writing about music have long evoked deserved admiration and respect. Jiří Černý was often a direct participant in events that significantly changed the face of our music scene, and thus his reviews, interviews, and comments contribute valuable insights into mapping both our and foreign popular music in the second half of the 20th century. The presented extensive book project by the Galén publishing house is a music encyclopedia sui generis; and since Jiří Černý knows how to write about music in an interesting, timeless, vivid, and factually correct manner, this book collection will surely also become an invaluable source of information for all those who write, translate, or simply want to learn about music. The fifth volume summarizes Černý's works from 1995-1999. Its essential part consists of articles for the monthly 'Folk & Country': two two-year series 'Milestone Albums of Czech Folk' (1995, 1996), 'Anniversaries Written...' (1997, 1998), and for the year 1999 the series of obituaries 'Closed Chapters'. This volume also includes comments for 'Mladá fronta DNES', 'Lidové noviny', 'Rock & Pop', 'Divadelní noviny', 'Svět a divadlo' and also all preserved...