ISBN:
9781666906530
Language:
English
Pages:
vii, 294 pages
,
illustrations
,
24 cm
Series Statement:
Studies in folklore and ethnology : Traditions, practices, and identities
Parallel Title:
Online version Folklore and ethnology in the Soviet Western borderlands
Keywords:
National socialism and folklore
;
Folklore / Europe
;
Ethnology / Europe
;
Europe / Politics and government / 20th century
;
Soviet Union / Politics and government
;
Nazisme et folklore
;
Folklore / Europe
;
Ethnologie / Europe
;
Europe / Politique et gouvernement / 20e siècle
;
URSS / Politique et gouvernement
;
Ethnology
;
Folklore
;
National socialism and folklore
;
Politics and government
;
Europe
;
Soviet Union
;
1900-1999
Abstract:
"The chapters in this collection examine the impact of Soviet-era folklore studies and ethnology on past and present Europe and the world"--
Abstract:
"Thirteen international scholars assess the profound impact of Soviet-era movements to study, apply, and perform folklore as a priority in socialist policy-formation and culture-building. Representing generations who lived through and after Soviet occupation, they reflect on the consequences of state-supported promotion of folk arts in a region called the Western Borderlands that include Baltic countries, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania, and Hungary. In their incisive analyses, authors present original archival materials as well as ethnographic data to understand colonialist support for bottom-up folklore movements and resistance to them. Capping the volume is a timely consideration of Soviet orchestration of folkloristic work on present developments in conflicts of Russia with its neighbors and alignments with Western folkloristics and ethnology."--
Description / Table of Contents:
Introduction : The analytics of "socialist in form, national in content" in the Soviet Western Borderlands / Toms K̦encis -- Part I : An inherent paradox : national form and socialist content. Folklore and nationalism in the Soviet Western Borderlands / Toms K̦encis -- Bringing the folk community into the future : on the socialist content of communist folkloristics / Joseph Grim Feinberg -- The Lithuanian folklore movement and academe : transforming rural tradition / Austė Nakienė -- Part II : Multivocal socialism : agents and agendas. Being in between : Laine Mesikäpp and staged practices of Estonian traditional songs / Janika Oras -- Ideological tuning of Latvian folk ornament / Digne Ūdre -- The Dievurti movement under the Soviet regime / Gatis Ozoliņš -- Part III. Folk and the people : education and control. On self-folklorization : folk art in late-socialist-era Poland / Ewa Klekot -- Folkloristics in Moldovo : relations between discipline and performance / Jennifer R. Cash -- The influence of Soviet authority on the formation of Latvian staged folk dance / Elīna Gailīte -- Part IV : Post-war academia: sovietization of the discipline. New songs for a new life : Soviet folklore and folkloristics in Western Ukraine / Pavlo Artymyshyn and Roman Holyk -- Confronting Soviet colonialism : folkloristics in early Soviet Estonia and East Germany / Kaisa Langer -- The search for workers' folklore in Hungary / Gabriella Vámos -- Afterword : Ghosts of socialist folkloristics in the Post-Soviet world / Simon J. Bronner
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