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The Folklore Revival Movement in Former Czechoslovakia: Dichotomy of the Term
Authors: Stavělová, Daniela
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Folklore revival movement of the second half of the 20th century in shifting cultural, social and political contexts, Prague (CZ), 20171018
Year: 2018
Language: eng
Abstract: 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: Czech Republic; folk ensembles; folklore revival movement; folklorism; narratives; oral history
Project no.: GA17-26672S (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR
Host item entry: Folklore Revival Movements in Europe post 1950: Shifting Contexts and Perspectives, ISBN 978-80-88081-22-7
Note: Související webová stránka: http://www.eu.avcr.cz/cs/aktuality/Folklore-Revival-Movements-in-Europe-post-1950.-Shifting-Contexts-and-Perspectives./
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/11104/0304965
Permalink: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-409351
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Authors: Stavělová, Daniela
Document type: Papers
Conference/Event: Folklore revival movement of the second half of the 20th century in shifting cultural, social and political contexts, Prague (CZ), 20171018
Year: 2018
Language: eng
Abstract: 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: Czech Republic; folk ensembles; folklore revival movement; folklorism; narratives; oral history
Project no.: GA17-26672S (CEP)
Funding provider: GA ČR
Host item entry: Folklore Revival Movements in Europe post 1950: Shifting Contexts and Perspectives, ISBN 978-80-88081-22-7
Note: Související webová stránka: http://www.eu.avcr.cz/cs/aktuality/Folklore-Revival-Movements-in-Europe-post-1950.-Shifting-Contexts-and-Perspectives./
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/11104/0304965
Permalink: http://www.nusl.cz/ntk/nusl-409351
The record appears in these collections:
Research > Institutes ASCR > Institute of Ethnology
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