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Where There are No Spectators: Loving Authentic Folklore in Post-folkloric Slovakia

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ISBN 13 : 9781321033311
Total Pages : 300 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (333 download)

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Download or read book Where There are No Spectators: Loving Authentic Folklore in Post-folkloric Slovakia written by and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page 300 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The dissertation's chapters follow a series of challenges that the authentic folklore movement has faced in its work of reformulating folklore. In the process, I outline and analyze the elaborate procedures that the movement has developed in order to address these challenges. I argue that these specific challenges derive from tensions inherent in the movement's notion of authentic folklore (and to a certain extent inherent in the notion of authentic folklore in general). Of chief importance is the idea that authentic folklore is engaged in "for one's own pleasure" rather than for the sake of an audience or a public; yet at the same time authentic folklore advocates believe that folklore should be made accessible to a "broad public" that is not able to engage in folklore "for its own pleasure" because it has lost contact with authentic folk traditions. Ideally, in authentic folklore "there are no performers or spectators," yet the authentic folklore movement must perform folklore to spectators in order to teach them about this ideal. My dissertation traces the movement's attempts to create--however tentatively--a public that ceases to be an audience, becoming an active participant in the enactment of folklore, yet never fully merging with the "folk." The public is encouraged to identify with the folk as a grounding figure of public identity, without becoming the folk and without "politicizing"--mobilizing or transforming--the meaning of the folk's shared cultural expression. The dissertation is accompanied by one supplementary recording of a performance by Folklore Ensemble Hornad, with whom the author spent most of his time during fieldwork.

Local Fusions

Author : Barbara Rose Lange
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0190245360
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Local Fusions written by Barbara Rose Lange and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2018 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Local Fusions, author Barbara Rose Lange explores musical life in Hungary, Slovakia, and Austria between the end of the Cold War and the world financial crisis of 2008. With case studies from Budapest, Bratislava, and Vienna, the book looks at the ways that artists generated social commentary and tried new ways of working together as the political and economic atmosphere shifted during this time. Drawn from a variety of sources, the case studies illustrate how young musicians redefined a Central European history of elevating the arts by fusing poetry, local folk music, and other vernacular music with jazz, Asian music, art music, and electronic dance music. Their projects rejected exclusion based on ethnic background or gender prevalent in Central Europe's present far-right political movements, and instead embraced diverse modes of expression. Through this, the musicians asserted woman power, broadened masculinities, and declared affinity with regional minorities such as the Romani people.

The Paradox of Authenticity

Author : Joseph Feinberg
Publisher : University of Wisconsin Pres
ISBN 13 : 0299316602
Total Pages : 253 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (993 download)

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Download or read book The Paradox of Authenticity written by Joseph Feinberg and published by University of Wisconsin Pres. This book was released on 2018-07-24 with total page 253 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A theoretically rich and vividly written ethnography of folklore revival and performance in Eastern Europe that provocatively embraces larger questions of social theory, authenticity, and philosophy.

Scottish Myths & Legends

Author : Daniel Allison
Publisher : Nielsen ISBN Store
ISBN 13 : 9781838040314
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (43 download)

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Download or read book Scottish Myths & Legends written by Daniel Allison and published by Nielsen ISBN Store. This book was released on 2020-05 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The blue-skinned old woman who made the mountains. Finfolk, seal-people and the Makers of Dreams. Within these pages are the little-known stories of Scotland, collected and retold by an oral storyteller who performs them throughout the world. From folk-tales and local legends to ancient epics, these stories will astonish and delight readers everywhere. Daniel Allison is an acclaimed oral storyteller who performs everywhere from schools and prisons to global festivals. He hosts the House of Legends Podcast and is the author of The Bone Flute, Silverborn, Scottish Myths & Legends and Finn & The Fianna. 'A masterpiece... Celtic myths and legends at their fantastic best. Mythical, flirty, thumpingly violent and divinely nasty!' Jess Smith reviewing Finn & The Fianna 'A tremendous read... no end of dramas, surprises and reversals of fortune... wonderful stuff' Fay Sampson reviewing The Bone Flute 'The best mythology podcast I've heard' House of Legends listener review

A Sound of Strangers

Author : Nicholas E. Tawa
Publisher : Scarecrow Press
ISBN 13 : 9780810815049
Total Pages : 326 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (15 download)

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Download or read book A Sound of Strangers written by Nicholas E. Tawa and published by Scarecrow Press. This book was released on 1982 with total page 326 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Tawa examines the musical traditions brought to America by the peasants and urban workers of southern Italy, the Middle East , and eastern Europe, and by the Chinese, Japanese, and East European Jews, and describes their survival within the American context, in often hostile surroundings.

Congressional Record

Author : United States. Congress
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 1210 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Congressional Record written by United States. Congress and published by . This book was released on 1964 with total page 1210 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Almanac...National Slovak Society

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 188 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (89 download)

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Download or read book Almanac...National Slovak Society written by and published by . This book was released on 2000 with total page 188 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Spectator

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ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (321 download)

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Download or read book The Spectator written by and published by . This book was released on 1969 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds

Author : Nicholas J. Mizer
Publisher : Springer Nature
ISBN 13 : 3030291278
Total Pages : 174 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Tabletop Role-Playing Games and the Experience of Imagined Worlds written by Nicholas J. Mizer and published by Springer Nature. This book was released on 2019-11-22 with total page 174 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1974, the release of Dungeons & Dragons forever changed the way that we experience imagined worlds. No longer limited to simply reading books or watching movies, gamers came together to collaboratively and interactively build and explore new realms. Based on four years of interviews and game recordings from locations spanning the United States, this book offers a journey that explores how role-playing games use a combination of free-form imagination and tightly constrained rules to experience those realms. By developing our understanding of the fantastic worlds of role-playing games, this book also offers insight into how humans come together and collaboratively imagine the world around us.

The Great Return: Slovakia's Lost Daughters and Sons Come Home

Author : Zuzana Palovic
Publisher : Hybrid Global Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781957013169
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (131 download)

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Download or read book The Great Return: Slovakia's Lost Daughters and Sons Come Home written by Zuzana Palovic and published by Hybrid Global Publishing. This book was released on 2022-02 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the beginning of the 21st century, Europe opened its borders to the countries from behind the Iron Curtain. Since then, over 100 million citizens, including Slovaks gained the freedom to move West without a visa. Now, a decade after the East-West exodus, our pioneers are returning home. Telling the stories of international Slovaks who left, learned and returned, 58 voices including government, business and society share their views on the transformation of a nation. The 59th voice is that of the author, who reveals a personal tale of loss, lessons and reconnection through a rite of passage shared by millions of people across the planet. Time-travellers to culture-shifters, Slovakia's lost daughters and sons come home, proving that return is not just a possibility, but an opportunity.

La Llorona

Author : Joe Hayes
Publisher : Cinco Puntos Press
ISBN 13 : 0938317865
Total Pages : 34 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (383 download)

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Download or read book La Llorona written by Joe Hayes and published by Cinco Puntos Press. This book was released on 2004 with total page 34 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A retelling, in parallel English and Spanish text, of the traditional tale told in the Southwest and in Mexico of how the beautiful Maria became a ghost.

Designing and Implementing Public Policy in Contemporary Society

Author : Dorota Szaban
Publisher : V&R Unipress
ISBN 13 : 3847015184
Total Pages : 189 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (47 download)

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Download or read book Designing and Implementing Public Policy in Contemporary Society written by Dorota Szaban and published by V&R Unipress. This book was released on 2022-12-12 with total page 189 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Public policies are an arena of collective actions that respond to the main problems of society. They are understood as a cycle of decisions and actions of public administration aimed at achieving the desired benefits in the future. They are mostly used when market mechanisms fail and are not able to deal with the problem on their own, or when they do not work effectively enough. The multiplicity of problems and the inadequacies in their solutions create opportunities for the emergence of new sectoral policies and interventions that address both entirely new and traditional phenomena of social life, but require a new approach that recognizes the special importance of political factors. The main objective of sectoral policies is to support the development of the identified key areas of development. This anthology presents the ways of creating and implementing public policies related to educational, demographic and social problems.

Making Intangible Heritage

Author : Valdimar Tr. Hafstein
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253037964
Total Pages : 199 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (53 download)

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Download or read book Making Intangible Heritage written by Valdimar Tr. Hafstein and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2018-08-29 with total page 199 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Making Intangible Heritage, Valdimar Tr. Hafstein—folklorist and official delegate to UNESCO—tells the story of UNESCO's Intangible Heritage Convention. In the ethnographic tradition, Hafstein peers underneath the official account, revealing the context important for understanding UNESCO as an organization, the concept of intangible heritage, and the global impact of both. Looking beyond official narratives of compromise and solidarity, this book invites readers to witness the diplomatic jostling behind the curtains, the making and breaking of alliances, and the confrontation and resistance, all of which marked the path towards agreement and shaped the convention and the concept. Various stories circulate within UNESCO about the origins of intangible heritage. Bringing the sensibilities of a folklorist to these narratives, Hafstein explores how they help imagine coherence, conjure up contrast, and provide charters for action in the United Nations and on the ground. Examining the international organization of UNESCO through an ethnographic lens, Hafstein demonstrates how concepts that are central to the discipline of folklore gain force and traction outside of the academic field and go to work in the world, ultimately shaping people's understanding of their own practices and the practices themselves. From the cultural space of the Jemaa el-Fna marketplace in Marrakech to the Ise Shrine in Japan, Making Intangible Heritage considers both the positive and the troubling outcomes of safeguarding intangible heritage, the lists it brings into being, the festivals it animates, the communities it summons into existence, and the way it orchestrates difference in modern societies.

The Mother of All Questions

Author : Rebecca Solnit
Publisher : Haymarket Books
ISBN 13 : 1608467201
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (84 download)

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Download or read book The Mother of All Questions written by Rebecca Solnit and published by Haymarket Books. This book was released on 2017-02-12 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A collection of feminist essays steeped in “Solnit’s unapologetically observant and truth-speaking voice on toxic, violent masculinity” (The Los Angeles Review). In a timely and incisive follow-up to her national bestseller Men Explain Things to Me, Rebecca Solnit offers sharp commentary on women who refuse to be silenced, misogynistic violence, the fragile masculinity of the literary canon, the gender binary, the recent history of rape jokes, and much more. In characteristic style, “Solnit draw[s] anecdotes of female indignity or male aggression from history, social media, literature, popular culture, and the news . . . The main essay in the book is about the various ways that women are silenced, and Solnit focuses upon the power of storytelling—the way that who gets to speak, and about what, shapes how a society understands itself and what it expects from its members. The Mother of All Questions poses the thesis that telling women’s stories to the world will change the way that the world treats women, and it sets out to tell as many of those stories as possible” (The New Yorker). “There’s a new feminist revolution—open to people of all genders—brewing right now and Rebecca Solnit is one of its most powerful, not to mention beguiling, voices.”—Barbara Ehrenreich, New York Times–bestselling author of Natural Causes “Short, incisive essays that pack a powerful punch.” —Publishers Weekly “A keen and timely commentary on gender and feminism. Solnit’s voice is calm, clear, and unapologetic; each essay balances a warm wit with confident, thoughtful analysis, resulting in a collection that is as enjoyable and accessible as it is incisive.” —Booklist

Rose Water and Orange Blossoms

Author : Maureen Abood
Publisher : Running Press Adult
ISBN 13 : 0762456043
Total Pages : 257 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (624 download)

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Download or read book Rose Water and Orange Blossoms written by Maureen Abood and published by Running Press Adult. This book was released on 2015-04-28 with total page 257 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Pomegranates and pistachios. Floral waters and cinnamon. Bulgur wheat, lentils, and succulent lamb. These lush flavors of Maureen Abood's childhood, growing up as a Lebanese-American in Michigan, inspired Maureen to launch her award-winning blog, Rose Water & Orange Blossoms. Here she revisits the recipes she was reared on, exploring her heritage through its most-beloved foods and chronicling her riffs on traditional cuisine. Her colorful culinary guides, from grandparents to parents, cousins, and aunts, come alive in her stories like the heady aromas of the dishes passed from their hands to hers. Taking an ingredient-focused approach that makes the most of every season's bounty, Maureen presents more than 100 irresistible recipes that will delight readers with their evocative flavors: Spiced Lamb Kofta Burgers, Avocado Tabbouleh in Little Gems, and Pomegranate Rose Sorbet. Weaved throughout are the stories of Maureen's Lebanese-American upbringing, the path that led her to culinary school and to launch her blog, and life in Harbor Springs, her lakeside Michigan town.

Finn and the Fianna

Author : Daniel Allison
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750995858
Total Pages : 251 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Finn and the Fianna written by Daniel Allison and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2021-02-19 with total page 251 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The stories of Finn MacCoull and his warriors were once told at every fireside in Scotland and Ireland. After centuries in obscurity, this collection brings the tales soaring to life again. Here you will find Diarmuid, whom no woman can help but fall in love with, and Ossian, a warrior-poet raised in the woods by a wild deer. There is Grainne, ancient ancestor of Iseult and Guinevere, and Finn himself, whose name was once a byword for wisdom, generosity and beauty. Enter a world of feasting and fighting, battles and poetry, riddles and omens; join Finn and the Fianna on their never-ending quest to drink deeper and deeper of the cup of life.

Orkney Folk Tales

Author : Tom Muir
Publisher : The History Press
ISBN 13 : 0750955333
Total Pages : 226 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (59 download)

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Download or read book Orkney Folk Tales written by Tom Muir and published by The History Press. This book was released on 2014-03-03 with total page 226 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Orkney Islands are a place of mystery and magic, where the past and the present meet, ancient standing stones walk and burial mounds are the home of the trows. Orkney Folk Tales walks the reader across invisible islands that are home to fin folk and mermaids, and seals that are often far more than they appear to be. Here Orkney witches raise storms and predict the outcome of battles, ghosts seek revenge and the Devil sits in the rafters of St Magnus Cathedral, taking notes! Using ancient tales told by the firesides of the Picts and Vikings, storyteller Tom Muir takes the reader on a magical journey where he reveals how the islands were created from the teeth of a monster, how a giant built lochs and hills in his greed for fertile land, and how the waves are controlled by the hand of a goddess.