Political folklore on festival market: Power of paradigm and power of stage

• Authors: Miroslava Lukić Krstanović

Title variants

CS

Politický folkor na festivalovém trhu: Moc paradigmatu a moc jeviště

• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

Political folklore can be regarded through processes of construction of paradigms, and the production of festivals. There is no doubt that folklore, as a national concept and a commercial product, has become a means in the creation of various strategies of power on its path to becoming the national identifier as well as the commercial product in the everlasting confrontation between cultural forms and the ideological formations. The folklore construction in the conventional zones, along with its regulation role in the intangible heritage, as well as during the performing of the folklore performances, establish one complex system of controls, interests and commodities. The most exclusive examples of the folklore traditions production are, in effect, various events - festive events that become a significant domestic and tourist phenomena based on their ritual and seasonal journeys. A case study of a Dragačevski sabor trubača (The Trumpet Festival of Dragačevo) is analysed through the zone of national and commercial supervision and representation, leaving behind a deep trace of folklore’s politicising

Keywords

EN

folklore; politics; bureaucracy; Festivals in Serbia; The Trumpet Festival

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Czech Academy of Sciences
• Journal: Český lid: etnologický časopis (Český lid: Ethnological journal)
• Year: 2011
• Volume: 98
• Issue: 3
• Pages: 261-280
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Miroslava Lukić Krstanović

• Český lid, redakce, Etnologický ústav AV ČR, v.v.i., Na Florenci 3, 110 00 Praha 1, Czech Republic