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Contributors
Jan Blüml (1980) is a post-graduate in the Department of Musicology at the Faculty
of Arts, Palacký University, Olomouc. His primary academic interest is jazz, folk,
pop music, and, in particular, state policy on the arts with regard to Czechoslovak
popular music in the 1960s and 1970s.
Jan Bureš (1975) lectures in the Institute of Political Science at the Faculty of
Arts, Charles University, Prague, and Metropolitan University, Prague, where he
is Head of the Department of Social Sciences. His chief research interest is the
Czech transition to democracy and changes in the Czech political system during
the twentieth century. Apart from a number of academic articles, his publications
include Občanské fórum (Pilsen, 2007).
Alessandro Catalano (1970) is a graduate of La Sapienza, Rome. He has taught
at Florence and Pisa, and is now Professor of Czech Language and Literature at
Padua. His chief areas of research are modern Czech literature and the Counter-
Reformation. He has also translated works from Czech, for example, by Viewegh,
Hrabal, Součková, Kolář, and Nezval. Together with Simone Guagnelli he edits the
internet journal eSamizdat. His publications include Sole rosso su Praga: La letteratura
ceca tra socialismo e underground (1945–1959) (Rome, 2004; in Czech: Rudá záře
nad literaturou: Česká literatura mezi ideologií a undergroundem. Brno, 2009) and
La Boemia e la riconquista delle coscienze: Ernst Adalbert von Harrach e la Controriforma
in Europa centrale (1620–1667) (Rome, 2005; in Czech: Zápas o svědomí: Kardinál
Arnošt Vojtěch z Harrachu (1598–1667) a protireformace v Čechách, Prague, 2008).
Adéla Gjuričová (1971) is a Senior Researcher in the Institute of Contemporary
History, Prague. Her primary area of academic interest is changes in the ideological
discourse of the Czech right-wing from late 1989 onwards. Together with Jaroslav
Cuhra, Jiří Ellinger, and Vít Smetana, she is the co-author of the fourth volume