Pavla Jonssonová, Ph.D.

Pavla Jonssonová earned a PhD. from Charles University and has taught courses at Anglo-American University since 2001, specializing in gender, subcultures, and media representation. Her publications include three monographs Women, Music, Creativity including: Hildegard; Cosey Fanni Tutti in English; Devět z české hudební alternativy osmdesátých let (Czech Music Alternative of the 1980s) (English version pending); Růžové vrány. Muzikantky 21. Století (Interviews with twenty Czech women musicians); and numerous articles, interviews, poetry, and translations. Since 1980 she has performed original music as a founding member of a women’s rock band, Zuby nehty, who have produced ten albums, poetry books, and a film for Czech Tv. The band is still active. She is also a member of a civic association Puppets in Hospitals who perform for sick children.

Specializace

Contemporary Culture, Subcultures, Music Anthropology, Literature, Gender Studies

Publikace a další aktivity

  • Devět z českých hudebních alternativ osmdesátých let Karolinum: Praha 2019
  • Ženy, hudba, tvořivost: od Hildegardy po Cosey Fanni Tutti. Lambert Academic Publishing: Berlin 2017
  • Jonssonová, Pavla. Chapter “New Girls on the Bloc: Punk in the Soviet Sphere.” *Unearthing the Music*, edited by Alex Pehlemann, Spector Books, 2025.
  • Chapter “Island of Freedom on the Vltava River” in Remaking Culture and Music Spaces. Affects, Infrastructures, Futures. Ian Woodward, Jo Haynes, Pauwke Berkers, Aileen Dillane, Karolina Golemo (Eds.) Routledge: London, 2022.
  • Jonssonová, Pavla. “Czech Alternative Myths: Hokkaido Recording Company, Prague, 1980s”. 189-197 in: Hidden Cities: Understanding Urban Popcultures Ed. Leonard R. Koos Inter-Disciplinary Press Oxford, United Kingdom © Inter-Disciplinary Press 2012, http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/publishing/id-press/
  • Jonssonová, Pavla. Recenze. Marta Kolářová ed.: Revolta stylem. Hudební subkultury mládeže v České republice. 387-390. (Revolta stylu. Hudba v subkulturách mládeže v České republice.). Městský lid/Lidé Města 14, 2012.
  • Jurková, Zuzana, Jonssonová, Pavla. “Plastic People v sítích.” 167-175. Společnost českých zemí v evropských kontextech. České evropanství ve srovnávacích perspektivách, sborník z konference FHS UK. Praha 2012
  • Jonssonová, Pavla, Jurková, Zuzana. "Případ Makropulos jako sémiotická zkušenost". Lidé města/Urban People, září 2010.
  • Pražské zvukové krajiny. Ed. Jurková Zuzana