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"Our Song!" Nationalism in Folk Music Research and Revival in Socialist Czechoslovakia
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SYSNO ASEP 0469743 Document Type J - Journal Article R&D Document Type Journal Article Subsidiary J Článek ve WOS Title "Our Song!" Nationalism in Folk Music Research and Revival in Socialist Czechoslovakia Author(s) Kratochvíl, Matěj (UEF-S) Number of authors 1 Source Title Studia Musicologica - ISSN 1788-6244
Roč. 56, č. 4 (2015), s. 397-405Number of pages 9 s. Publication form Print - P Language eng - English Country HU - Hungary Keywords Czechoslovakia ; folk music ; folk song collections ; revival ; politics ; nationalism ; communism Subject RIV AC - Archeology, Anthropology, Ethnology OECD category Antropology, ethnology Institutional support UEF-S - RVO:68378076 UT WOS 000392639600007 EID SCOPUS 85019215953 DOI https://doi.org/10.1556/6.2015.56.4.7 Annotation In the Czechoslovakia of the 1950s, traditional folk music was officially presented as the most important resource of national musical identity. Folk- or folkinspired music was ubiquitous. Although this intensity had subsided in the following decades, the role of folk music as a symbol of national identity remained strong until the end of the communist rule in 1989. While the ideology of nationalism used folk music as its tool, it also influenced the way this music was collected, researched, and presented. The article presents examples from two closely related areas to document this phenomenon: folk music research and folk music revival. A closer look reveals how the idea of state-promoted nationalism influenced the ways researchers presented their findings, how they filtered out material that was deemed unsuitable for publication, and how traditional music was revived on stage or in media by folk music and dance ensembles. Critical analysis of research materials and audiovisual documents from the 1950s and 1960s will show how censorship accompanied a folk song from its collection in the field, through publication, to a stylized production on stage or in film. Workplace Institute of Ethnology Contact Veronika Novotná, novotna@eu.cas.cz, Tel.: 532 290 277 Year of Publishing 2017
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