We all Know That, Don´t We?: Situating Scholarly Knowledge about the Czech 'Folklore Movement'

0540460 - EÚ 2021 RIV CZ eng C - Konferenční příspěvek (zahraniční konf.)
Zdrálek, Vít
We all Know That, Don´t We?: Situating Scholarly Knowledge about the Czech 'Folklore Movement'.
Folklore Revival Movements in Europe post 1950: Shifting Contexts and Perspectives. Praha: Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v. v. i., 2018 - (Stavělová, D.; Buckland, T.), s. 369-382. ISBN 978-80-88081-22-7.
[Folklore revival movement of the second half of the 20th century in shifting cultural, social and political contexts. Praha (CZ), 17.10.2017-19.10.2017]
Grant CEP: GA ČR(CZ) GA17-26672S
Institucionální podpora: RVO:68378076
Klíčová slova: Czech music folkloristics * Czech music ethnology * Cpost-communism * positionality of knowledge * self-reflexivity
Obor OECD: 6.5 Other Humanities and the Arts
http://www.eu.avcr.cz/cs/aktuality/Folklore-Revival-Movements-in-Europe-post-1950.-Shifting-Contexts-and-Perspectives./

The text is a reflexive contemplation of the ‘common sense’ in Czech music folkloristics/ethnology from the point of view of the Czech ethnomusicologist whose personal as well as research experience has, significantly in this context, been formed outside the Czech folklore and folkloristics/ethnology practices and discourses. Partly based on reflexive ethnographic observations of the ongoing research project ‘Weight and Weightlessness of Folklore: The Folklore Movement of the Second Half of the 20th Century in the Czech Lands’ (2017-2019) hosted by the Ethnological Institute, Czech Academy of Sciences, partly based on autoethnographic self-inspections of the author’s experience of the ‘alien affect’ towards the dominant Czech folklore discourse in the Czech-German ‘borderlands’ of the 1980s and the 1990s, and partly discussing the post-1989 folkloristics/ethnology versus anthropology debate and the less pronounced, but no less acute music folkloristics/ethnology versus ethnomusicology debate in the Czech Republic, the text formulates what it hopes to be the key questions for understanding the positionality of Czech music folkloristics/ethnological knowledge and creates an intellectual space for self-reflexive disciplinary discussion which it sees as critical for the future of the Czech music folkloristics/ethnological research.
Trvalý link: http://hdl.handle.net/11104/0318149