Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands (eBook, ePUB)

Socialist in Form, National in Content
Redaktion: Kencis, Toms; Seljamaa, Elo-Hanna; Bronner, Simon J.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Thirteen international scholars assess the profound impact of Soviet-era movements to study, apply, and perform folklore as a priority in socialist policy-formation and culture-building. Representing generations who lived through and after Soviet occupation, they reflect on the consequences of state-supported promotion of folk arts in a region called the Western Borderlands that include Baltic countries, Ukraine, Poland, Slovakia, Belarus, Romania, and Hungary. In their incisive analyses, authors present original archival materials as well as ethnographic data to understand colonialist support for bottom-up folklore movements and resistance to them. Capping the volume is a timely consideration of Soviet orchestration of folkloristic work on present developments in conflicts of Russia with its neighbors and alignments with Western folkloristics and ethnology.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 302
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Dezember 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781666906547
• Artikelnr.: 68980577

Autorenporträt

Edited by Toms Kencis; Simon J. Bronner and Elo-Hanna Seljamaa - Contributions by Pavlo Artymyshyn; Simon J. Bronner; Jennifer R. Cash; Toms Kencis; Ewa Klekot; Elina Gailite; Joseph Grim Feinberg; Roman Holyk; Kaisa Langer; Auste Nakiene; Janika Oras; Ga

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: The Analytics of 'Socialist in Form, National in Content' in the Soviet Western Borderlands Toms
encis Part I. An Inherent Paradox: National Form and Socialist Content Chapter 1. Folklore and Nationalism in the Soviet Western Borderlands Toms
encis Chapter 2. Bringing the Folk Community into the Future: On the Socialist Content of Communist Folkloristics Joseph Grim Feinberg Chapter 3. The Lithuanian Folklore Movement and Academe: Transforming Rural Tradition Aust
Nakien
Part II. Multivocal Socialism: Agents and Agendas Chapter 4. Being in Between: Laine Mesikäpp and Staged Practices of Estonian Traditional Songs Janika Oras Chapter 5. Ideological Tuning of Latvian Folk Ornament Digne
dre Chapter 6. The Dievturi Movement under the Soviet Regime Gatis Ozoli
Part III. Folk and the People: Education and Control Chapter 7. On Self-Folklorization: Folk Art in Late Socialist Era Poland Ewa Klekot Chapter 8. Folkloristics in Moldova: Relations between Discipline and Performance Jennifer R. Cash Chapter 9. The Influence of Soviet Authority on the Formation of Latvian Staged Folk Dance El
na Gail
te Part IV. Post-war Academia: Sovietization of the Discipline Chapter 10 New Songs for a New Life: Soviet Folklore and Folkloristics in Western Ukraine Pavlo Artymyshyn and Roman Holyk Chapter 11. Confronting Soviet Colonialism: Folkloristics in Early Soviet Estonia and East Germany Kaisa Langer Chapter 12. The Search for Workers' Folklore in Hungary Gabriella Vámos Afterword: Ghosts of Socialist Folkloristics in the Post-Soviet World Simon J. Bronner About the Contributors