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The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia.

The Paradox of Authenticity: Folklore Performance in Post-Communist Slovakia.

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著者・編者Feinberg, Joseph,
シリーズ (Folklore Studies in a Multicultural World)
出版社 (University of Wisconsin Press, US)
出版年月2018
ページ数184 pp.
言語ENG
ニュース番号<A04-36171>

解説

Observing the activities of urban folk dance enthusiasts in Slovakia, Joseph Grim Feinberg sets out to scrutinize the processes by which ""authentic folklore"" is identified, talked about, represented, reconstructed, reenacted, and revived.

In Slovakia and elsewhere in Eastern Europe after World War II, Communist governments promoted folklore revivals and staged performances of song and dance as representations of ""the people."" When the Communists fell from power in Slovakia in 1989, folklore was also discredited in the eyes of many. By the early twenty-first century, however, a new generation launched a movement to revive folklore's reputation and reintroduce it to a broad public.

Weaving together personal narrative, ethnographic analysis, and philosophical reflection, Feinberg examines the aspirations and difficulties of young folk dance devotees as they recognize that authenticity is more easily prized than achieved. He sheds new light on the problems of specialized performance and broad participation, the uneasy relationship between folklore and the public sphere, and the paradoxical pursuit of authenticity in the modern world.