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Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands
Socialist in Form, National in Content
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Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands
Socialist in Form, National in Content
About this book
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.
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Yes, you can access Folklore and Ethnology in the Soviet Western Borderlands by Toms Kencis,Simon J. Bronner,Elo-Hanna Seljamaa in PDF and/or ePUB format, as well as other popular books in Social Sciences & Baltic History. We have over one million books available in our catalogue for you to explore.
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Table of contents
- Cover
- Half Title
- Series Page
- Title Page
- Copyright Page
- List of Figures
- Introduction
- Part I: An Inherent Paradox
- Chapter 1: Folklore and Nationalism in the Soviet Western Borderlands
- Chapter 2: Bringing the Folk Community into the Future: On the Socialist Content of Communist Folkloristics
- Chapter 3: The Lithuanian Folklore Movement and Academe: Transforming Rural Tradition
- Part II: Multivocal Socialism
- Chapter 4: Being in Between: Laine Mesikäpp and Staged Practices of Estonian Traditional Songs
- Chapter 5: Ideological Tuning of Latvian Folk Ornament
- Chapter 6: The Dievturi Movement under the Soviet Regime
- Part III: Folk and the People
- Chapter 7: On Self-Folklorization: Folk Art in Late-Socialist-Era Poland
- Chapter 8: Folkloristics in Moldova: Relations between Discipline and Performance
- Chapter 9: The Influence of Soviet Authority on the Formation of Staged Latvian Folk Dance
- Part IV: Postwar Academia
- Chapter 10: New Songs for a New Life: Soviet Folklore and Folkloristics in Western Ukraine
- Chapter 11: Confronting Soviet Colonialism: Folkloristics in Early Soviet Estonia and East Germany
- Chapter 12: The Search for Workers’ Folklore in Hungary
- Afterword
- Index
- About the Contributors