Folklore Party: Prague “Folklorists” as a Cultural Cohort

• Authors: Hrbáčková Anežka

Title variants

CS

Folklorní mejdlo: „Folkloristé“ v Praze jako kulturní kohorta

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

The study focusses on the community of people who deal with musical and dance folklore. The author builds on the musicalanthropological conception of music as a social act, and she applies the concepts of Caroline Bithell´s and Jennifer Hill´s music revivals and Thomas Turin´s cultural cohort on the researched field. She defined the field by a musical-dance event which currently takes place regularly in Prague and which has been called “Folklore Party” by its organizers. She specifies the event as an interconnection between the world of modernity, which the life in the Czech metropolis offers, and the world of folk traditions (folklore). Through participant observation and semi-structured interviews, she studies the way of bargaining the concepts of authenticity and legitimacy, their granting to particular participants and entities, and in general how the event´s participants construct the folklore and what the resulting construct looks like. Prague as a fluid musical environment makes it possible to create and bargain traditions (in Henry Glassie´s concept) running in different directions. One of the traditions which are of recursive nature and which serve the participants to construct meanings and to implement a socio-cultural change relates to the concept of folklore. As understood by my informers, folklore music has a potential to be confronted with the pressure of modernity, thanks to other levels which are also described in the study and which the folklore music includes.

Keywords

EN

Folklore; revival; tradition; authenticity; cultural cohort; Prague

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: 119 - 129

Contributors

author

Hrbáčková Anežka