Inventing the Carnival: Contemporary Festivities, Tradition and Imaginaries

0469459 - EÚ 2017 RIV CZ eng J - Journal Article
Stavělová, Daniela - Kratochvíl, Matěj
Inventing the Carnival: Contemporary Festivities, Tradition and Imaginaries.
Český lid = Czech Ethnological Journal. Roč. 103, č. 4 (2016), s. 569-595. ISSN 0009-0794. E-ISSN 2570-9216
Institutional support: RVO:68378076
Keywords : carnival * festivity * city * tradition * collective memory * music * dance
Subject RIV: AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology
Method of publishing: Open access
http://ceskylid.avcr.cz/media/articles/618/submission/original/618-1464-1-SM.pdf

Since the early 1990s, an increasing number of festivities in the Czech Republic can be observed, constructed after a historical form of the rural carnival (“masopust”). They reveal the needs and intentions of contemporary urban society, which manipulates elements of the carnival in the context of contemporary activities. We focus on the way the structural units of the festivity are selected and appropriated by people within the construction of its contemporary form. The ethnomusicological and ethnochoreological approach enables us to reflect the cognitive process of the participants who makes visible their personal as well as collective experience of the festivity and provides us information about social relationships, culture and collective memory produced together with images of the time. The qualitative field research took place in several districts of Prague and its suburbs, based on relationships between place and interests.
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