Original title: Negotiating the Place for a Dance
Authors: Stavělová, Daniela
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Symposium of the International Council for Traditional Music Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Styria (AT), 20160709
Year: 2017
Language: eng
Abstract: The text focuses on the observation of the process during the features of traditional culture are transformed for the purposes of the present urban context. The study explores a rural carnival (called masopust in Czech Republic) in some districts of Prague since the early 1990s into a present festivity involving local people as participants. The process of rethinking carnival and (re)constructing the dance and music repertory is studied from the perspective of urbanisation. The contribution is based on the observation of the dichotomy of public/private space appropriated by the dance. Its goal is to disclose the role of the recent music and dance repertory in the process of local identity building.
Keywords: carnival; dance; music; Prague; urbanisation
Host item entry: Dance, Senses, Urban Contexts: Dance and the Senses. Dancing and Dance Cultures in Urban Contexts., ISBN 978-3-8440-5335-7, ISSN 0945-0912

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/11104/0282342

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