Copyright
Rebeka Kunej; Andriy Nahachewsky; Daniela Stavělová. Copyright of individual chapters are maintained by the chapter author(s).ISBN
Language
- English
THEMA
- JHMC
- JBCC
- JBGB
- NH
- AVA
BISAC
- SOC002010
- SOC011000
- SOC005000
- SOC022000
- HIS010010
- MUS015000
Keywords
- Post-socialist folklore
- Czech folk culture
- Slovenian cultural heritage
- Ethnography of tradition
- Folk music and dance
- Cultural identity and memory
Why Folklore?
Perspectives from Czechia and Slovenia in the Post-Socialist Era
Contributors
Rebeka Kunej
(editor)Rebeka Kunej is an ethnologist and cultural anthropologist, Research Associate at the Institute of Ethnomusicology, ZRC SAZU, and Editor-in-Chief of the scholarly journal Traditiones. Her research examines traditional dance and dancing, the history of folklore ensembles and festivals in Slovenia, dance music on 78 rpm recordings, ethno-identity practices after 1991, and the role of dance as a marker of communal identity. More broadly, she explores the relationships between dance, society, politics, and individual and collective values. Her principal publications include “Spaces of Folk Dancing beyond the (Slovene) Folklore Ensemble Stage” in Národopisná revue (2023); “The Waltz among Slovenians” in Waltzing through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Open Book Publishers, 2020); and “Folk Dance on the Stage” in What to Do with Folklore? New Perspectives on Folklore Research (2017).
Andriy Nahachewsky
(editor)Andriy Nahachewsky is an ethnographer, ethnochoreologist and specialist in Ukrainian dance and folklore. He is Professor and Huculak Chair of Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography at the University of Alberta, where he has also served as Director of the Canadian Centre for Ukrainian Culture and Ethnography. His research focuses on the anthropology and history of dance, Ukrainian cultural traditions and diaspora communities. He is the author of Ukrainian Dance: A Cross-Cultural Approach, a major study of the development, performance and cultural significance of Ukrainian dance across different historical and social contexts.
Daniela Stavělová
(editor)Daniela Stavělová is an ethnochoreologist, Senior Research Fellow in the Department of Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology at the Institute of Ethnology of the Czech Academy of Sciences, and Assistant Professor of Dance Anthropology in the Department of Dance at HAMU in Prague. Her research explores music and dance in diverse socio-cultural, political and historical contexts, with particular emphasis on romantic nationalism and folklore revival. Her principal publications include the edited volume Tíha a beztíže folkloru: Folklorní hnutí druhé poloviny 20. století v českých zemích [The Weight and Weightlessness of Folklore] (Academia, 2021); Folklore Revival Movements in Europe after 1950: Shifting Contexts and Perspectives, co-edited with Theresa J. Buckland (Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences, 2018); and the chapter “Polka as a Czech National Symbol” in Waltzing through Europe: Attitudes towards Couple Dances in the Long Nineteenth Century (Open Book Publishers, 2020).