JAZZ A BEAT. STŘET HUDBY A GENERACÍ V ČESKÉ LITERATUŘE ŠEDESÁTÝCH LET
JAZZ AND BEAT MUSIC: THE MUSIC AND GENERATION GAP IN CZECH PROSE IN 1960'S

Summary/Abstract: The aim of this article is to show the relations between music and literature in Czechoslovakia in the 1960's, especially the opinions of the new beat sound presented by the "older generation" authors Josef Škvorecký (1924) and Karel Pecka (1928 –1997). They both were musicians and loved jazz, however, they didn't refuse beat music completely. Their feelings about this kind of music are double-dealing. On one hand they mean it's just a short-term fashion and a little bit shallow, "three-chords" music (unlike jazz), on the other hand they find it as a natural difference between the youth and the older generation and there's no reason to fight against it (although they feel injured because they realise "the older generation" means them now). They understand that young people want to be different from their parents and create their own lifestyle in every period. Finally Pecka and show that in this case the role of beat music in the 1960's was similar to the role that jazz music had before.

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