Traditional Music and Dance in Contemporary Culture(s) [antikvár]

ForewordThe last decades of the 20'" century were marked by intensified and diversified social processes that transformed traditional musical and dance practices, and their social representations and functions in many countries, not only European. These processes have been affected by diverse factors, both inside and outside the country, and often lead to varying results, especially regarding the connections of music and dance expressions within each social reality. Rural cultures cannot be perceived as culturally stable social systems today, but instead need to be seen as differentiated social environments, where, for example, music and dance phenomena are both sophisticated and flexible entities responding to various impulses.On the other hand, new topics - and practices observed in local communities - require approaches to field research, analysis and scholarly interpretation to be revised. Cultural-anthropological, ethnomusicological, ethnoorganological or ethnochoreological perspectives view traditional music and dance (or their modified forms) in many different ways. Moreover, digital technologies have significantly affected the methods that ease field research and the analysis of audiovisual field recordings as well.The main aim of the publication is to take part in the scholarly debate of experts from Central Europe, including experts from a larger international territory, and thus create a platform for the transmission of ideas, experience and research results in contemporary forms of traditional music and dance in their changing social context.Several papers in the publication focus on traditional musical instruments. In this regard, the authors deal with current local music and dance practices and their development associated with specific types of musical instruments (B. Garaj, K. Bindu), or the role and development of musical instruments in European folk music revival and revitaiization movements (U. Morgenstern). Other papers present theoretical-methodological and analytical approaches to studying the playing style of instrumental ensembles and the need for their revision (J. Ambrózová). Attention is also paid to the contemporary forms of Romani music, innovations in its production and forms of its presentation in real life and on the Internet (J. Belisová), as well as important collectors, editors and performers of traditional music (K. Císaríková).The book contains also articles from the area of systematic musicology focused on the analysis of selected aspects of traditional vocal expressions using digital technologies (A. Mazurenko) or texts presenting in-depth structural analyses of rare dance types and related research projects (A. Krausová,