Anglo-American University in Prague Pavla Jonssonová, Ph.D.
Letenska 5, Prague 1
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.
Specializations
Contemporary Culture, Subcultures, Music Anthropology, Literature, Gender Studies
Publications & Other Activities
- Devět z české hudební alternativy osmdesátých let (Czech Music Alternative of the 1980s) Karolinum: Praha 2019
- Women, Music, Creativity: from Hildegard to 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.(Revolt in Style. Music in Youth Subcultures in the Czech Republic.) 387-390. Urban People/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, Jurkova, Zuzana. “Macropulos Case as a Semiotic Experience”. Lidé města/Urban People, září 2010.
- Prague Soundscapes. Ed. Jurková Zuzana