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The Carnival in Dolní Chrášťany: Music Ethnographic Research
Podroužková, Lucie ; Zdrálek, Vít (advisor) ; Kratochvíl, Matěj (referee)
4 Abstract In Dolní Chrášt'any, something that could be described as a "new tradition" has been developing in recent years. The village of Dolní Chrášt'any is located on former German territory, so most of its original inhabitants were displaced after World War II, and the continuity of the carnival celebration was interrupted. After the subsequent settlement of the village, the carnival tradition was renewed, but it did not last long and was again interrupted as the inhabitants left. It was only in the new millennium, after 2000, when new immigrants from the urban environment, mostly from Prague, began to settle in Dolní Chrášt'any. It seems that they do not strive for "authenticity" at any cost. They do not want to create an 'open-air museum' of the original carnival, but to capture the social dimension of the festival and to reflect the current state and conditions of the local community, which, although at first sight may look very distant from the original ones, in essence fulfil an identical function. It is this paradox of the clash between folk tradition and its perception by people who did not grow up in the atmosphere of village traditions that I will primarily focus on in my research. The original intention to describe the current form of the carnival in Dolní Chrášťany and to outline the links to...
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