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The Folklore Revival Movement in Former Czechoslovakia: Dichotomy of the Term
Stavělová, Daniela
2018 - English
In the Czech Lands, the folklore movement is used to refer to the existence of folklore ensembles and their stage production. Recently, however, the term has gained negative connotations as it is associated with the era of Communism, especially the ideological pressures of the 1950s. The reason for these negative associations is that folklore was performed as politically harmless entertainment preferred by the ideology of the day, thus, the folklore movement became representative of values associated with the ideology. The paradoxical, and less known, fact is that members of folklore ensembles often used this environment as a refuge that they could escape to from the grim reality of the political system and a meaningful way of realizing their alternative ideas that they were unable to realize in their professional life. The contribution explores this ambivalence through the memories of surviving actors of the folklore movement, therefore, the principal method used here is oral history, with the main focus on an individual human story – a little history in the context of big history.
Keywords:
folklore revival movement; folklorism; folk ensembles; oral history; narratives; Czech Republic
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The Folklore Revival Movement in Former Czechoslovakia: Dichotomy of the Term
In the Czech Lands, the folklore movement is used to refer to the existence of folklore ensembles and their stage production. Recently, however, the term has gained negative connotations as it is ...
Preface
Stavělová, Daniela; Buckland, Jill Theresa
2018 - English
The preface introduces into the topic of the edited volume that brought together ethnochoreologists, anthropologists of dance, ethnomusicologists, folk music scholars and educators, oral historians and anthropologists, some indeed combining these disciplinary fields. It explains the different statements and perspectives used in the collection by the authors investigating folklore revival movement and opens the door for further critical examination of the power of such cultural practices, their political salience, whether at national, institutional or individual levels, and their deep-seated impact on people who have encountered and evaluated folk revivalism in their lives.
Keywords:
revival; folklorism; oral history; self-reflexivity
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Preface
The preface introduces into the topic of the edited volume that brought together ethnochoreologists, anthropologists of dance, ethnomusicologists, folk music scholars and educators, oral historians ...
The Power of Tradition(?): Folk Revival Groups as Bearers of Folk Culture
Pavlicová, Martina
2018 - English
A growing interest in rural folk culture among the intelligentsia could be seen throughout Europe (and in the Czech Lands also) in the nineteenth century, often as a symbolic aim of finding a national identity. The turn of the twentieth century saw the demise of many archaic manifestations of folk culture in the everyday life, however also the beginning of their “second life”. The paper is opening questions about the role of folk revivals groups in this process.
Keywords:
Czech Lands; traditional folk culture; folklorism; folk revivalmovement; folk revival groups
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The Power of Tradition(?): Folk Revival Groups as Bearers of Folk Culture
A growing interest in rural folk culture among the intelligentsia could be seen throughout Europe (and in the Czech Lands also) in the nineteenth century, often as a symbolic aim of finding a national ...
Literature on the Folklore Revival Movement in the Czech Journal Taneční listy 1963: a Critical Analysis
Gremlicová, Dorota
2018 - English
This study examines texts published in the Czech journal Taneční listy which deal with the folklore dance and song revival movement after 1945. A detailed analysis is conducted of various texts from the 1963 volume, paying special attention to the dominant themes and typical patterns of thinking. Through the analysis, shifts in the conceptualization of the folk movement in Czechoslovakia in the early 1960s are addressed in connection with changes in the social, political and cultural contexts.
Keywords:
Folk dance; Taneční listy; choreography; Czechoslovakia; 1963
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Literature on the Folklore Revival Movement in the Czech Journal Taneční listy 1963: a Critical Analysis
This study examines texts published in the Czech journal Taneční listy which deal with the folklore dance and song revival movement after 1945. A detailed analysis is conducted of various texts from ...
Politically Committed Songs: A Distinctive Product of the Czech Folk Revival Movement of the 1950s
Uhlíková, Lucie
2018 - English
The beginning of Communist totalitarian era in then Czechoslovakia brought with it political declarations of a new historical epoch and a new worldview, one whose rise was to be facilitated, among other ways, by a retooling of culture. Folklore was misused more than other areas because the folk revival movement was transformed into a strong propaganda tool. ‘New folk art’ in the spirit of socialist realism demanded new songs that would reline traditional forms with contemporary content, oftentimes with political or propaganda undertones. As is clear in contemporaneous folklore research, these propaganda ‘folksongs’ were composed primarily by members of politically active folk ensembles. Despite this, these were creative individuals closely tied to the live tradition, and their composition took place within that framework.
Keywords:
folklore revival movement in the Czech Lands; totalitarianism; propaganda folk songs; political song; communist ideology
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Politically Committed Songs: A Distinctive Product of the Czech Folk Revival Movement of the 1950s
The beginning of Communist totalitarian era in then Czechoslovakia brought with it political declarations of a new historical epoch and a new worldview, one whose rise was to be facilitated, among ...
Recollecting versus Remembering : On the Era of the New Folk Songs in Czechoslovakia during the Totalitarian Regime
Uhlíková, Lucie
2018 - English
The paper explores memory in connection with the new folk songs which originated in totalitarian Czechoslovakia within the folk movement. These songs were written in the spirit of folk tradition, but they had topical content, which often showed political motive and propagandist intent.
Keywords:
folk song; totalitarianism; culture politics; folklorism; the misuse of cultural heritage
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Recollecting versus Remembering : On the Era of the New Folk Songs in Czechoslovakia during the Totalitarian Regime
The paper explores memory in connection with the new folk songs which originated in totalitarian Czechoslovakia within the folk movement. These songs were written in the spirit of folk tradition, but ...
Folklore Revival Movements in Europe post 1950. Shifting Contexts and Perspectives.
Stavělová, Daniela
2018 - English
This collection of papers emerges from a symposium on the folklore revival movement of the second half of the twentieth century which was held in Prague in October 2017. As the current findings of ongoing research in this volume demonstrate, across Europe, the performance and investigation of folklore revival movements, especially music and dance, is of vital interest and relevance to understanding their manifestation in the second half of the twentieth century. This present collection opens the door to further critical examination of the power of such cultural practices, their political salience, whether at national, institutional or individual levels, and their deep-seated impact on people who have encountered and evaluated folk revivalism in their lives.
Keywords:
folklore revival movement; politics; dance
Fulltext is available at external website.
Folklore Revival Movements in Europe post 1950. Shifting Contexts and Perspectives.
This collection of papers emerges from a symposium on the folklore revival movement of the second half of the twentieth century which was held in Prague in October 2017. As the current findings of ...
Dům národnostních menšin v Praze - impulzy k uskutečnění záměru a realizace projektu
Sulitka, Andrej
2018 - Czech
S návrhy vytvořit centrum organizací národnostních menšin v Praze přicházeli zástupci národnostních menšin po 1993. Záměr zřízení Domu národnostních menšin byl pak realizován ve spolupráci Komise Rady hl. m. Prahy s Radou vlády pro národnostní menšiny. Finanční prostředky na přestavbu vhodného objektu poskytla jednak vláda ze státního rozpočtu, jednak větší část nákladů byla uhrazena z rozpočtu hl. m. Prahy. Objekt byl předán v roce 2007 k užívání Magistrátu hl. m. Prahy jako sídlo menšinových organizací a centrum jejich společenského a kulturního života. The representatives of the national minorities in Prague iniciated the establishing of the centre of organizations of the national minorities in Prague already after 1993. The idea of creating the House of the national minorities has been than realized in the cooperation between Prague's Comittee for National Minorities and the Government Council for National Minority Affairs. Funding for the reconstruction of the appropriate building was provided by the government from the state budget and, on the other hand, the larger part of the costs was paid from the city budget. The building was handed over to the use of the City's administration as the headquarters of Prague's minority organizations in 2007 and a centre of their social and cultural life.
Keywords:
National Minorities; Capital City of Prague; Municipality; Establishment of the House of National Minorities; Minority Institution
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Dům národnostních menšin v Praze - impulzy k uskutečnění záměru a realizace projektu
S návrhy vytvořit centrum organizací národnostních menšin v Praze přicházeli zástupci národnostních menšin po 1993. Záměr zřízení Domu národnostních menšin byl pak realizován ve spolupráci Komise Rady ...
We all Know That, Don´t We?: Situating Scholarly Knowledge about the Czech 'Folklore Movement'
Zdrálek, Vít
2018 - English
The text is a reflexive contemplation of the ‘common sense’ in Czech music folkloristics/ethnology from the point of view of the Czech ethnomusicologist whose personal as well as research experience has, significantly in this context, been formed outside the Czech folklore and folkloristics/ethnology practices and discourses. Partly based on reflexive ethnographic observations of the ongoing research project ‘Weight and Weightlessness of Folklore: The Folklore Movement of the Second Half of the 20th Century in the Czech Lands’ (2017-2019) hosted by the Ethnological Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, partly based on autoethnographic self-inspections of the author’s experience of the ‘alien affect’ towards the dominant Czech folklore discourse in the Czech-German ‘borderlands’ of the 1980s and the 1990s, and partly discussing the post-1989 folkloristics/ethnology versus anthropology debate and the less pronounced, but no less acute music folkloristics/ethnology versus ethnomusicology debate in the Czech Republic, the text formulates what it hopes to be the key questions for understanding the positionality of Czech music folkloristics/ethnological knowledge and creates an intellectual space for self-reflexive disciplinary discussion which it sees as critical for the future of the Czech music folkloristics/ethnological research.
Keywords:
Czech music folkloristics; Czech music ethnology; Cpost-communism; positionality of knowledge; self-reflexivity
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We all Know That, Don´t We?: Situating Scholarly Knowledge about the Czech 'Folklore Movement'
The text is a reflexive contemplation of the ‘common sense’ in Czech music folkloristics/ethnology from the point of view of the Czech ethnomusicologist whose personal as well as research experience ...
Rozpomínání versus zapomínání : o éře tzv. nových lidových písní v totalitním Československu
Uhlíková, Lucie
2018 - Czech
Příspěvek je věnován otázce paměti ve spojení s tzv. novou lidovou písní, která v totalitním Československu vznikala na půdě folklorního hnutí. Šlo o písně skládané v duchu lidové tradice, avšak s aktuálním obsahem, často politicky angažovaným a agitačním. The paper explores memory in connection with the new folk songs which originated in totalitarian Czechoslovakia within the folk movement. These songs were written in the spirit of folk tradition, but they had topical content, which often showed political motive and propagandist intent.
Keywords:
folk song; totalitarianism; culture politics; folklorism; the misuse of cultural heritage
Fulltext is available at external website.
Rozpomínání versus zapomínání : o éře tzv. nových lidových písní v totalitním Československu
Příspěvek je věnován otázce paměti ve spojení s tzv. novou lidovou písní, která v totalitním Československu vznikala na půdě folklorního hnutí. Šlo o písně skládané v duchu lidové tradice, avšak s ...
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