Workers’ song research and folk revival in the Eastern Bloc connected traditions Adám Ignácz

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ignácz, Ádám, 1981- author.

Series:

Cambridge elements. Elements in popular music

Cambridge elements. Elements in popular music 2634-2472

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Folk music--Political aspects--Europe, Eastern.

Folk music.

Working class--Europe, Eastern--Songs and music.

Working class.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2026

Summary:

"This Element explores workers’ song research, a dominant strand of music scholarship in the Eastern Bloc and one of the earliest to engage with musical practices beyond the domains of art music and peasant folklore. It traces the institutionalization of this field, the changing interests of its representatives, and the ways in which, from the 1960s onward, they built regional networks and established dialogue with actors of the Western folk revival. Through these networks and exchanges, the repertoires and key performers of the international folk scene gained visibility behind the Iron Curtain. Yet the ‘folk revival’ assumed an ambivalent character there, as communist governments and cultural institutions sought to appropriate and elevate it to a central position within the popular music sphere. The study focuses primarily on Hungary, East Germany, and Czechoslovakia, highlighting the role of local scholars in linking different musical traditions and in shaping state-sponsored folk scenes"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Music scholarship in transnational perspective

Precursors

State-supported workers’ song research in the 1950s : Czechoslovakia and the German Democratic Republic

Workers’ song research on the margins of academia : The case of Hungary

International connections as catalysts

The first international conference on workers’ songs

The Liblice resolution and the institutionalization of workers’ song research in Hungary

The Bartók archives and activist scholarship in Hungary in the early 1960s

Folk revival in the Eastern Bloc?

Towards the party line

‘Science of veterans, science of the youth’ : Research activities in the 1970s

Developments in the late 1970s and the 1980s

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references

Online resource; title from PDF title page (Cambridge Core, viewed August 18, 2026)

Other Format:

Print version Ignácz, Ádám, 1981- Workers’ song research and folk revival in the Eastern Bloc

ISBN:

9781009682848

1009682849

OCLC:

1602952002

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