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OH THE DIFFUSION OF MUSICAL CULTURES

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Bielawski L.

Musicology Today

2004

vol. 1

9-15

The study of diffusion of musical cultures is related more to the level of individual and social life than to such topics as the level of musical language, performance, composition and musical environment studies. While the latter emphasizes more stable elements, cultural diffusion brings out the elements of dynamics and change. History is always connected with the ideologies dominant at the time, there are also many levels of history, and each presents the problem of differentiation and mutual diffusion of cultures. Research programmes dealing with these subjects - the one by Alan Lomax, as well as the studies of Polish ethnomusicologists (Anna Czekanowska, Bozena Muszkalska) are discussed. It is noted that researchers have abandoned the idea of grand syntheses, tending to study small ethnic groups and cultural changes. The author points out that the diffusion of cultures has often been linked to violence and to the resistance to it. He also expresses hope that European heritage in music will be considered beyond the often artificially enforced national divisions.

GENDERED FAMILY PRACTICES AND CULTURAL DIFFUSION IN BINATIONAL COUPLES OF POLISH MIGRANT WOMEN

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Buler M., Pustułka P.

Studia Migracyjne - Przegląd Polonijny

2017

vol. 43

issue 4 (166)

37–59

The article discusses family practices and gender relations in the interethnic couples of Polish women having foreign partners. While the theoretical framework engages with conceptualizations of family practice, binational coupledom, cultural diffusion and gender orders, the mix-methods methodological approach combines cases from three qualitative and thematically-linked research projects on Polish migration across three EU destination countries. We argue that spousal attitudes to gender orders shape the degree of cultural diffusion in interethnic couples formed by Polish women in Western Europe. In addition, we propose that gender orders of the spouses must not align with the ethnic belonging, but rather illuminate the pre-existing preferences for a traditional or egalitarian model. More broadly, we observe that women remain the key agents of sustaining or rejecting the Polish heritage and practices in the everyday life. In other words, the women determine the degree and shape of the intra-family cultural diffusion.

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OH THE DIFFUSION OF MUSICAL CULTURES

GENDERED FAMILY PRACTICES AND CULTURAL DIFFUSION IN BINATIONAL COUPLES OF POLISH MIGRANT WOMEN