Tíha a beztíže folkloru. Folklorní hnutí druhé poloviny 20. století v českých zemích
| Title in English | Weight and Weightlessness of the Folklore: The Folklore Movement of the Second Half of the 20th Century in Czech Lands |
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| Year of publication | 2021 |
| Type | Monograph |
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| Description | The collective monograph of the ten-member team is the result of an extensive study of the so-called folklore movement of the second half of the 20th century in the Czech lands, which was an important and at the same time contradictory cultural and social phenomenon. It has its origins in the 1950s, when ensembles of folk songs and dances were founded, especially in the cities. These were supposed to fulfill the ideas of ideologically conceived culture, but their boom naturally resulted in the "weight of folklore" felt at the turn of the fifties and sixties. The book deals with how this activity was perceived by its direct participants and what their life stories and stories tell about it. Was the folklore movement an instrument of political propaganda of the communist regime, or was it an island of human and artistic freedom, which became a kind of safe place for the implementation of its own strategies and alternative ideas? |