15. A Twenty-First Century Resurrection

This chapter investigates a particular kind of Polka, the potresujka, which entered the field of popular culture and generated extraordinary enthusiasm as late as the twenty-first century. It explores how a dance from the early-nineteenth century undergoes a revival that is taken up and spread by modern media, independent from the folk-dance movement. As it follows the progress of the Polka in the twentieth century, it outlines a process wherein a dance goes from being local or national to transnational, and is ultimately accepted as local once again in a new and transformed context.