SVADOBNÝ VIDEOZÁZNAM AKO PRAMENNÝ MATERIÁL VO VÝSKUME HUDOBNO-NÁSTROJOVÝCH ZOSKUPENÍ V OBCI VLACHOVO

• Authors: Gecelovský Peter

Title variants

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A wedding video recording as a source material in the research of music bands in the village of Vlachovo

• Languages of publication: SK

Abstracts

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The need for filming the wedding customary cycle arose due to the advancement of technology and the proliferation of VCRs in the countryside. The newlyweds suggested filming the event since they wanted to save their wedding day on a VHS tape. The earliest wedding records in the village of Vlachovo date back to the latter part of the 1980s. The research focuses on ensemble groups in the village of Vlachovo (Rožňava district). The central source material of the research are private wedding recordings on VHS media, perceived both as a recording medium and as a cultural phenomenon in rural areas. The aim of this thesis is to evaluate the nature and potential of wedding VHS recordings for local instrumental tradition research. The study included fieldwork on multiple VHS tapes, content analysis of the video recordings, and scholarly literature and ethnographic interviews as supplements. The thesis is based on the analysis of VHS tapes, in which it is possible to follow the course of the wedding custom and the activities of the music-instrument groups within it. The recordings contain a wealth of information about the progression of weddings between 1985 and 2003. Through their lens, it is also possible to analyse the many stages of the wedding custom from a musical perspective, observing the forms of ensemble tradition, the playing repertoire, and the forms and extent of the ensembles’ participation in wedding events.

Keywords

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MUSIC BAND; WEDDING VIDEOTAPE RECORDING; MUSIC REPERTOIRE; WEDDING CUSTOMS; VLACHOVO; SLOVAKIA

• Publisher: Institute of Ethnology, Slovak Academy of Sciences, Slovak Ethnological Society, and Slovak National Museum - Ethnological Museum (in Martin)
• Journal: Etnologické rozpravy (Ethnological Disputes)
• Year: 2024
• Volume: 31
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 87 – 100

Contributors

author

Gecelovský Peter

• Ústav manažmentu kultúry a turizmu, kulturológie a etnológie, Filozofická fakulta, Univerzita Konštantína Filozofa v Nitre, Štefánikova 67, 949 74 Nitra, Slovak Republic

Identifiers

DOI

10.31577/EtnoRozpra.2024.31.2.07