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Transformations in the Interpretation of Music Folklore: From the Protection of Everyday Culture to the Emergence of a Music Genre (Using the Czech Republic as a Case Study)
Uhlíková, Lucie ; Pavlicová, M.
From the 1960s onwards, efforts began to develop in Czech ethnology, which gradually began to include folklore manifestations in their second existence in professional research. The field of folklorism sometimes overlapped with the existence of folk traditions, sometimes built on them, and sometimes was only inspired by them to varying degrees. The distinction in such defined categories was not easy even in the past, and with the increasingly rapid development of society, it became blurred in the general consciousness. Within this scope, a contemporary broad music genre, music folklore, has emerged that is not easy to define in terms of content. In this paper, the authors outline its historical formation, show model moments of its development, and deal with its polyfunctionality: many collectives present themselves not only on stage (together with dancers) and in concert settings (independently), but also participate in local ethno-cultural traditions, dance parties, family celebrations (weddings, birthdays), and commercially focused events. To illustrate this, the paper uses archival source material, and field research based on interviews with selected musicians.
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Transformations in the Interpretation of Music Folklore: From the Protection of Everyday Culture to the Emergence of a Music Genre (Using the Czech Republic as a Case Study)
Uhlíková, Lucie ; Pavlicová, M.
From the 1960s onwards, efforts began to develop in Czech ethnology, which gradually began to include folklore manifestations in their second existence in professional research. The field of folklorism sometimes overlapped with the existence of folk traditions, sometimes built on them, and sometimes was only inspired by them to varying degrees. The distinction in such defined categories was not easy even in the past, and with the increasingly rapid development of society, it became blurred in the general consciousness. Within this scope, a contemporary broad music genre, music folklore, has emerged that is not easy to define in terms of content. In this paper, the authors outline its historical formation, show model moments of its development, and deal with its polyfunctionality: many collectives present themselves not only on stage (together with dancers) and in concert settings (independently), but also participate in local ethno-cultural traditions, dance parties, family celebrations (weddings, birthdays), and commercially focused events. To illustrate this, the paper uses archival source material, and field research based on interviews with selected musicians.
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New paths to recent music: Archives, documentation centres, and museums related to Czech popular music
Opekar, Aleš
The article presents a comprehensive view of documenting the history of popular music in the contemporary Czech Republic. After a historical introduction, outlining the broader historical context of the domestic situation and a brief context of the situation abroad, the author introduces new institutions, mostly non-profit organizations, which began to emerge after 1989 with the aim of collecting, archiving, and making available archival materials which tell the history of various areas of Czech and Czechoslovak popular music and culture. Through their activities, they have replaced, and continue to do it, the nonexistent interest in this area of culture on the part of the state, which persisted from the pre1989 period (that is before the fall of the communist regime in the former Czechoslovakia). Self-help activities are gradually finding their interdependence with, if not anchorage in, the state or academic environment. The archival and museum institutions established after 1989 focused on the previously neglected area of popular music and unofficial culture – such as Libri prohibiti, Popmuseum, Centre for the Study of Popular Culture, and Archive of Czech and Slovak Subcultures – cooperate with each other and with those previously established.
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