One on One Daphne Carr - American music writer and scholar teaching at Charles University
Daphne Carr is an American music expert and writer. The focus of her research is not classical but popular music, a field that only recently has garnered attention from academics. Carr’s passion for writing started within what is commonly referred to as the zine culture, zines being small and often underground publications that became popular in America in the 1980s and 1990s. She has stayed true to the underground and found a new favorite in the Czech Republic: the Plastic People of the Universe, who she learned about when she first came to Prague in 2000 to take summer courses. Carr now teaches a class on popular music at Charles University’s Institute of Musicology. Daphne talks about her course, the unique Czech genre of tramp music and what first piqued her interest in music.
The Plastic People of the Universe
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