Original title: Musician and audience: stage production and reception of Czech traditional music
Authors: Vejvoda, Zdeněk
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Třešť (CZ), 2010-07-19 / 2010-07-25
Year: 2012
Language: eng
Abstract: Folk music in Bohemia started to find use as a social and political phenomenon as early as the 19th century, a time known as the Czech National Revival. Whereas Czech folk songs were collected by the thousand, in line with the romanticizing ideas of nationalism then sweeping across Europe, dance music performed in people's everyday lives remained long outside collectors' attention. The development of music folklore performed on stage was largely influenced by two exhibitions held in Prague – the Jubilee Exhibition in 1891 and the Czech-Slavonic Ethnographic Exhibition in 1895. Adaptations and stage presentations were becoming increasingly important research issues. A new impulse came from the inter-war avant-garde, whereas in the mid-20th century, the Czechoslovak Radio adopted a crucial role in the process. All that had a significant effect on the life and work of amateur “folklore” ensembles.
Keywords: Czech Republic; folklorism; stage productions; traditional music
Project no.: CEZ:AV0Z90580513 (CEP)
Host item entry: Dance, Gender, and Meanings. Contemporizing Traditional Dance. Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology 2010. Třešť, Czech Republic, ISBN 978-80-7331-236-7

Institution: Institute of Ethnology AS ČR (web)
Document availability information: Fulltext is available at the institute of the Academy of Sciences.
Original record: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0216472

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