Project was presented during the Týden AV

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Project was presented during the international symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance of the Slavic World 5. - 7. 10. 2023 in Prague. 

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Field research of the festival Jurjevanje Črnomelj 2023

Our research was presented at the SIEF congress in Brno

Field research at the International Folklore Festival Strážnice 2022

Kunej, R., & Pisk, M. (2023). Folklore: Memories, Politics, Heritagisation. Traditiones, 52(2), 7–19. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2023520201

Stavělová, D. (2023). Hidden in Folklore: The Past and Present of the Revival Movement in Post-Socialist Countries. Traditiones, 52(2), 21–46. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2023520202

Kunej, D. (2023). The Changing Nature of Instrumental Music and Musicians in Folk Dance Ensembles. Traditiones, 52(2), 69–90. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2023520204

Skořepová, Z. (2023). “Zpěváček” Folk Singing Competition: Regional Identity and Heritage Performance in the Czech Republic. Traditiones, 52(2), 105–124. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2023520206

Vejvoda, Z. (2023). The International Bagpipe Festival in Strakonice and the Transformation of the Relationship Towards the Regional Bagpipe Tradition. Traditiones, 52(2), 149–172. https://doi.org/10.3986/Traditio2023520208

Kolačkovská, L. (2023). Ľudový tanec, mesto a životný štýl (na príklade Prahy, Brna a Bratislavy). Národopisná revue, 33(1), 18-32. https://revue.nulk.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/r1-2023-1.pdf#page=20

Kunej, R. (2023). Spaces Of Folk Dancing Beyond The (Slovene) Folklore Ensemble Stage. Národopisná revue, 33(1), 43-52. https://revue.nulk.cz/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/r1-2023-1.pdf#page=45

Stavělová, D. (2023). Why Do We Have So Many Carnivals in Town Today? An Event Between Ritual, Politics and Festival. In Slovenský národopis / Slovak Ethnology, vol. 71, no.4, pp. 342-364. 1339-9357. DOI: https://doi.org/10.31577/SN.2023.4.33

Mgr. Matěj Kratochvíl, Ph.D., ethnomusicologist, a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the CAS in the Department of Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology. Besides, he lectures at the Faculty of Humanities and the Department of Ethnology, Faculty of Arts, Charles University, and at New York University in Prague. He deals with historical sound recordings of traditional music and their digitization, changes in musical traditions in contemporary society, and music in public space.

Mgr. Zita Skořepová, Ph.D., ethnomusicologist, a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, where she deals with recent music anthropological research. The main areas of research interest are urban ethnomusicology, music of minorities, the folklore movement, and the importance of musical activities in everyday life in connection with cultural memory.

Doc. Mgr. Daniela Stavělová, CSc., Ethnochoreologist, a senior research fellow at the Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, the head of the Department of Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology and assistant professor of dance anthropology at the Department of Dance at HAMU in Prague. She examines the importance of music and dance culture in various socio-cultural, political, or historical contexts, romantic nationalism, and revival.

PhDr. Lucie Uhlíková, Ph.D., ethnomusicologist, a senior research fellow at the Brno workplace of the Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, since 1997 she has been the editor and since 2018 the editor-inchief of the ethnological journal Národopisná revue. He deals mainly with the research of memory related to musical folklore and folklorism, as well as ethnocultural traditions in contemporary society and access to folklore sources.

PhDr. Zdeněk Vejvoda, Ph.D., ethnomusicologist, research fellow in the Department of Ethnomusicology and Ethnochoreology of the Institute of Ethnology of the CAS, at the same time teaching at the Music and Drama Department of the Prague Conservatory. As an author of programs, he collaborates externally with Czech Radio and Radio Proglas. His main professional focus is a structural analysis of the Czech song type, historical sources of folk song and instrumental music, and musical folklorism.

Doc. Dr. Rebeka Kunej, ethnochoreologist, a research fellow at the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU, assistant professor of folklore studies and comparative mythology at the University of Ljubljana. Through studies of traditional dance and dancing, she examines the history of folk dance ensembles and folklore festivals in Slovenia, dance music on 78rpm records, ethno-identity dance practices in post-1991 Slovenia, and dance as an identity symbol of communities. She explores past and present relations of dance to society, politics, individual and collective values, and attitudes.

Dr. Mojca Kovačič, ethnomusicologist, research fellow, and the head of the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU. Through studies of instrumental music and folk songs, as well as contemporary musical phenomena, she explores the principles of musical structures and performances and sheds light on their relationships to issues such as gender, nationalism, cultural politics, folklorization, identifications, migrations.

Doc. Dr. Drago Kunej, ethnomusicologist, senior research fellow, head of the Sound Archives at the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU, and assistant professor at the University of Ljubljana on the field of Ethnomusicology. He researches the history of sound recordings and ethnomusicological sound documents in Slovenia, recordings as a source for ethnomusicological research, traditional musical instruments, folk dance ensembles, and migrant music.

Dr. Marjeta Pisk, heritage studies scholar, research fellow at the Institute of Ethnomusicology ZRC SAZU as a person who has never been involved in folklore activities, will represent a core of etic approach in the project. She will focus on the heritization processes and folklore activities in the crossborder region and the clashes among authorized and critical heritage discourse on folklore activity after Slovenia's independence and the emergence of new state borders.

Andrej Tomazin, B. A. in ethnology and cultural anthropology, senior expert associate, documentalist. He will participate in the implementation of fieldwork and take care of documentation and archiving of researchers' material.

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