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Folklore revival in post-socialist countries: politics, memory, heritization and sustainability

Description

The project focuses on monitoring the folklore activities in contemporary society, which are associated with making music and dance with elements of traditional folk culture without an obvious intention to cultivate, care for or further disseminate. Unlike the ideologically conceived folklore movement of the second half of the 20th century, there is a shift from presentational to participatory. There is a change in the environment of these activities, which take place not only in the activities of folklore ensembles and associated events, but in connection with emerging events. Important is the process of adopting images of the folklore movement in cultural memory, it is also a shift from local to global: folklore as a reflection of local or regional identity versus folklore as a field of hybrid and multi-genre musical dance expression using bricolage and appropriation of deterritorialized traditions. The theoretical frameworks will provide ethnochoreology and ethnomusicology focused on the study of dance and music in everyday life, their performativity and ways of communication.

 

PROJECT OBJECTIVES

  1. To examine the so-called folklore activity in the post-socialist period: inclusions and exclusions in folk dance groups/ensembles, politics, memories, and narratives.
  2. To examine the significance of music and musicians in the folk revival movement: an analysis of participatory and (re)presentative practises and a study of sound recordings.
  3. To examine contemporary productions of folklore and locally organised events in comparison with institutional notions of appropriate interpretation, authorised cultural memory, and heritagisation.

Results

Scientific articles

KUNEJ, Drago. 2023. The changing nature of instrumental music and musicians in folk dance ensembles. Traditiones 52 (2), 69–90, https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2023520204.

KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2023. Spaces of folk dancing beyond the (Slovene) folklore ensemble stage Národopisná revue 33(1): 43–52. 

KUNEJ, Rebeka, PISK, Marjeta. 2023. Foklore: memories, politics, heritagisation. Traditiones 52 (2): 7–9, https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2023520201.

PISK, Marjeta. 2023. Folkloristika in kritično preučevanje dediščine [Folkloristics and critical heritage studies]. Svetovi: revija za etnologijo, antropologijo in folkloristiko 1 (1): 82–96, https://doi.org/10.4312/svetovi.1.1.82-96.

PISK, Marjeta, KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2024. Jurjevanje festival from ritual to festival. Český lid: etnologický časopis 111 (4): 421–440, https://doi.org/10.21104/CL.2024.4.02.

VRTOVEC BENO, Ana. 2024. The role of contemporary vernacular theatre performances in the life of community in Slovenia. Národopisná revue 34 (2): 135–143, https://doi.org/10.62800/NR.2024.2.05.

 

 

Published scientific paper at a conference

KOVAČIČ, Mojca. 2024. Representations of ethnic minority folk dance ensembles: official discourses, identity constructions, individual needs and everyday realities among Bosniak youth in Slovenia. In: KUNEJ, Rebeka (ed.), DAVID, Ann R. (ed.). Reconsidering knowledge production and inclusion/exclusion in dance communities. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2024. 224–231, https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610508809.

KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2024. A folk dance ensemble between a cultural society and a dance community. In: KUNEJ, Rebeka (ed.), DAVID, Ann R. (ed.). Reconsidering knowledge production and inclusion/exclusion in dance communities. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2024. 238–245, https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610508809.

 

Scientific monograph

VRTOVEC BENO, Ana. 2023. Od ljudskega gledališča do uprizarjanja dediščine [From Folk Theatre to Heritage Staging]. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610507598  

 

Contributions at conferences 

KOVAČIČ, Mojca. 2022. Representations of minority folk dance ensembles: official discourses vs. individual needs and everyday realities. Paper at the 32nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, 29 July–5 August 2022, Brežice, Slovenia. [COBISS.SI-ID 123815939]

KUNEJ, Drago. 2022. Musicians in folk dance ensembles: included or excluded participants. Paper at the 32nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, 29 July–5 August 2022, Brežice, Slovenia. [COBISS.SI-ID 123816195]

KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2022. Folk dance ensemble: between cultural society and dance community. Paper at the 32nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, 29 July–5 August 2022, Brežice, Slovenia. [COBISS.SI-ID 123816451]

KOVAČIČ, Mojca. 2023. Processes of heritization of traditional music: examples from Slovenia. In: 4th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World: Faculty of Music and Dance, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, 5-7 October 2023. Prague: Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2023. Str. 10. [COBISS.SI-ID 169177347]

KUNEJ, Drago. 2023. The diatonic button accordion in the representations of Slovenian traditional music. In: 4th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World: Faculty of Music and Dance, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, 5-7 October 2023. Prague: Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2023. Str. 11. [COBISS.SI-ID 169177603]

KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2023. Traditional dance in Resia and its heritagisation. In: 4th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World: Faculty of Music and Dance, Academy of Performing Arts, Prague, Czech Republic, 5-7 October 2023. Prague: Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, 2023. Str. 11. [COBISS.SI-ID 169178115]

KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2023. Dancing in the round: articulation of identity. In: Living uncertainty: SIEF2023 16th Congress: Brno, Czech Republic, 7-10 June 2023. Brno: International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. 2023, 1 str. https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/paper/70421. [COBISS.SI-ID 155880963]

KUNEJ, Rebeka, MÆLAND, Siri. 2023. Spaces for traditional dancing in Europe: examples from North and South-East. In: Final programme of the 47th ICTM World Conference: (13–19 July 2023, Legon, Ghana). Legon: International Council for Traditions of Music and Dance. 2023, str. 219-220. https://www.ictmusic.org/sites/default/files/documents/world%20conferences/books%20of%20abstracts/abstracts%202023%20ictm%20world%20conference.pdf. [COBISS.SI-ID 163910403]

PISK, Marjeta. 2023. Intangible cultural heritage in Slovenia: between the state and heritage communities. In: ROGELJA CAF, Nataša (ed.), et al. Heritage on the margins? Central and Eastern European perspectives: book of abstracts : the 1st conference of Association of Critical Heritage Studies (ACHS), Central and Eastern Europe (CEE) Chapter : Ljubljana, Slovenia, 29-30 November 2023. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU, 2023. Str. 24. ISBN 978-961-05-0786-4. [COBISS.SI-ID 177824003]

PISK, Marjeta. 2023. Festival Jurjevanje in Črnomelj: a space for performing identifications?. In: Living uncertainty: SIEF2023 16th Congress: Brno, Czech Republic, 7-10 June 2023. Brno: International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. 2023, 1 str. https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/paper/70566. [COBISS.SI-ID 155874563]

VRTOVEC BENO, Ana. 2023. The role of vernacular (theatre) performances in the life of community in Slovenia. In: Living uncertainty: SIEF2023 16th Congress: Brno, Czech Republic, 7-10 June 2023. Brno: International Society for Ethnology and Folklore. 2023, 1 str. https://nomadit.co.uk/conference/sief2023/paper/70892. [COBISS.SI-ID 155869699]

KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2024. A polka is ordered: folk dance, research, and stage performance in a Slovenian alpine region. In: Volkstanz in den Alpen: Geschichte, Dokumentation, Praxis: Symposium zur Volksmusik in den Alpen: Abstracts und Kurzbiografien: Haus der Musik Innsbruck, 22.-23. Oktober 2024. Innsbruck: Mozarteum University, 2024. Str. 6-7. https://www.moz.ac.at/Programme/_archiv/Programm%20Abstracts%20CVs%20VOLKSTANZ-Symposium%202024.pdf. [COBISS.SI-ID 214610179]

KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2024. Dance house as personal choice = Plesna hiša kot osebna izbira. In: In New Disguise: Folk Music and Dance Revival Movements : International Symposium : Ljubljana, Slovenia, August 22nd-24th 2024, City Museum of Ljubljana, Gosposka 15, Ljubljana = V novi preobleki: ljudskoglasbena in plesna preporodna gibanja : mednarodni simpozij : Ljubljana, Slovenija, 22.–24. avgust 2024, Mestni muzej Ljubljana, Gosposka 15, Ljubljana. 1st ed. Ljubljana: ZRC SAZU: Ustanova Imago Sloveniae – Podoba Slovenije, 2024. Str. 32-33. ISBN 978-961-05-0891-5. [COBISS.SI-ID 205511939]

KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2024. Live music in traditional and revival contexts. In: 33rd Symposium of the ICTMD Study Group on Ethnochoreology: programme and abstracts: Izmir, Turkey, 21-28 July 2024 = 33. ICTMD Etnokoreoloji Çalışma Grubu Sempozyumu: program ve özetler : İzmir, Türkiye, 21-28 Temmuz 2024. İzmir: [s. n.], 2024. Str. 18-19. [COBISS.SI-ID 205524995]

PISK, Marjeta. 2024. Consequences of Marolt's folklore staging for today's perception of Slovenian folk music tradition and heritage. In: 39th European Seminar in Ethnomusicology : Zagreb, September 19-24, 2024 : [ESEM 39]. Zagreb: University of Zagreb, Academy of Music, 2024. Str. [21]. [COBISS.SI-ID 209372931]

PISK, Marjeta. 2024. Invisible role of heritage activists in Slovenia? In: The Association of Critical Heritage Studies, 7th Biennial Conference, Galway, 3. do 9. junij 2024. [COBISS.SI-ID 205874179]

PISK, Marjeta. 2024. Rural Heritage. Festivalisation of rural life in Slovenia. In: 5th Meeting of the Comission for the Cultural Analysis of Rural Areas of the dgekw, Bamberg, 20.-22. 3. 2024.

VRTOVEC BENO, Ana. 2024. Spontaneity and creativity in the creation of amateur theater. In: Post-Yugoslav historical and contemporary reflections on amateurism = Postjugoslovanski historični in sodobni pogledi na amaterizem : May 30-31, 2024, Prešernova dvorana, Novi trg 4. 1. izd. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, 2024. Str. 28-29. ISBN 978-961-05-0869-4. [COBISS.SI-ID 199058179]

 

Editors

KUNEJ, Rebeka (editor). 2022. 32nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology: programme and abstracts: [29 July-5 August 2022, Brežice, Slovenia] = 32. Simpozij ICTM Študijske skupine za etnokoreologijo: program in povzetki : [29. julij-5. avgust 2022, Brežice, Slovenija]. 1st ed. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU.

KUNEJ, Rebeka, PISK, Marjeta (editors of the thematic issue). 2023. Traditiones 52 (2): Folklora: spomini, politike, dediščinjenje / Folklore: Memories, Politics, Heritagization, https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio20235202

KUNEJ, Rebeka, DAVID, Ann R. (editors). 2024. Reconsidering knowledge production and inclusion/exclusion in dance communities: proceedings of the 32nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology: 29 July–5 August 2022, Brežice, Slovenia. Ljubljana: Založba ZRC, ZRC SAZU. https://doi.org/10.3986/9789610508809.

STAVĚLOVÁ, Daniela, KUNEJ, Rebeka. 2024. Why "folklore"? : seeking belonging and identity. Český lid: etnologický časopis 111(4): 387–396. (editors of the thematic issue) https://ceskylid.avcr.cz/en/archives/111-4

 

Conferences organised by the international project group

32nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, 29 July–5 August 2022, Brežice, Slovenia [32. Simpozij ICTM Študijske skupine za etnokoreologijo, 29. Julij–5. avgust 2022, Brežice, Slovenija]

4th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World, 5. –7. October 2023, Prague, Czech [4. Simpozij ICTM Študijske skupine za glasbo in ples slovanskega sveta, 5. –7. oktober 2023, Praga, Češka].


Research Project

Research Fields
Folklore revival in post-socialist countries: politics, memory, heritization and sustainability