Czechoslovak Shows and Contests of Folk Ensembles in the Second Half of the 20th Century: a Mirror of an Era and Creative Approaches

• Authors: Černíčková Kateřina

Title variants

CS

Československé přehlídky a soutěže folklorních souborů v druhé polovině 20. století: zrcadlo doby a tvůrčích přístupů

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study deals with staged folk dances in the Czech cultural context. The main goal is to observe the development of the national and state-wide contest/show of folklore ensembles as an important phenomenon associated with the development of artistic values of the specific Czechoslovak staged genre in the second half of the 20th century. The author explains the history of this phenomenon, which is unique in many respects, with all its positions of thinking, internal discrepancies and transformations in deliberations. Especially in the 1950s and in connection with the staged presentation of folk dances, matters relating to the period cultural-political tendencies were brought to the forefront; these, however, weakened in the 1960s, and it was folk ensembles´ own production that became the major preoccupation at that time. This broad platform appears to have been the basis for a significant stream of thinking within folklore movement, which over time has brought the staged folk dance to the form that essentially differs from how the staged folk dance is understood in other countries.

Keywords

EN

Folk dance; staged presentation of folk dance folklore movement; shows/contests; Czechoslovakia

Discipline

• ANTHROPOLOGY: ANTHROPOLOGY
• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: The National Institute of Folk Culture
• Journal: Národopisná revue (Journal of Ethnology)
• Year: 2018
• Volume: 28
• Issue: 2
• Pages: 130 - 143

Contributors

author

Černíčková Kateřina