Controlling the Liminal Power of Performance: Hungarian Scholars and Romani Musicians in the Hungarian Folk Revival

2007 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 51-72 ◽  
Author(s):  
LYNN HOOKER
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Liminal Spaces ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Fixed Boundaries ◽  
Hungarian Folk Music

AbstractIn the Hungarian folk revival, Hungarian Roma (Gypsies) serve as both privileged informants and exotic Others. The musicians of the revival known as the táncház (dance-house) movement rely heavily on rural Rom musicians, especially those from Transylvania, as authentic sources of traditional Hungarian repertoire and style. Táncház rhetoric centres on the trope of localized authenticity; but the authority wielded by rural Rom musicians, who carry music both between villages and around the world, complicates the fixed boundaries that various powerful stakeholders would place on the tradition. Drawing on media sources and on fieldwork in Hungary and Romania, I examine how authenticity and ‘Gypsiness’ are presented and controlled by the scholars, musicians, and administrators who lead the táncház movement, in particular in the context of camps and workshops dedicated to Hungarian folk music and dance. Organizers often erect clear boundaries of status, genre, and gender roles through such events, which, among other things, address the anxiety raised by Rom musicians’ power in liminal spaces. In addition, I look at how Rom musicians both negotiate with the táncház’s aesthetic of authenticity and challenge it musically. Finally, I discuss how musicians and the crowds that gather to hear and dance to their music together create a carnival atmosphere, breaking down some of the boundaries that organizers work so hard to create. Throughout, I demonstrate that liminality is an extraordinarily pertinent lens through which to view Roma participation in the Hungarian folk music scene.

scholarly journals Investigation of World assumption, personal attributes and gender roles of adolescents

2018 ◽  
Vol 48 ◽  
pp. 01033
Author(s):  
Meral Sert Aǧır
Keyword(s):  
High School Students ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Family Income ◽  
Living Environment ◽  
Family Characteristics ◽  
Personal Attributes ◽  
World Assumptions ◽  
Significant Difference ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

This research aims to examine adolescents’ world assumptions, personal attributes and gender roles. The research has attempted to examine the thoughts of adolescents about the world and the ways in which they define themselves as a man or a woman by considering the fact that their lives are affected not only by "traumatic" events but also by several family and environmental dynamics affecting their quality of life. Data was obtained from randomly selected 407 high school students from Kadıköy district in Istanbul province, by applying “World Assumptions Scale (WAS)”, “Extended Personal Attributes Questionnaire (EPAQ)”, “Gender Roles Attitude Scale (GRAS)”, and “Data Collection Form”. Our results showed that there was a significant difference in the scales and sub-dimensions used in the research with respect to gender, grade, family characteristics as well as life standards, balance of standards, adequacy of/change in family income, living with the family without problems, level of satisfaction with the environment, and the desire to change the living environment. In addition to a positive relationship between world assumptions and personal attributes, various correlations in different directions were also found between the sub-dimensions of the scales. Our research has shown that adolescents’ life dynamics can make a difference in their perception of the world and their assumptions about perceiving themselves as moral and valuable individuals, as well as their personal attributes and perceptions about gender roles.

scholarly journals Everyone goes fishing: Understanding procurement for men, women and children in an arctic community

2007 ◽  
Vol 30 (1) ◽  
pp. 9-29 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kerrie Ann Shannon
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Canadian Arctic ◽  
Division Of Labour ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Hunter Gatherers ◽  
The World ◽  
Women And Children ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Use Studies ◽  
Insight Into

Abstract This paper provides insight into Inuit procurement and gender roles. Through a focus on fishing derbies in the Canadian Arctic, this significant aspect of Inuit life is recognized. Many ethnographies and land use studies have previously concentrated on hunting. The fishing derby provides an alternative ethnographic example of procurement. It is an activity in which women, men, children, and elders participate. Women’s roles in the Arctic have often been discussed in terms of gender division of labour or in terms of their complementarity to men’s roles. The fishing derby demonstrates occasions when procurement activities are not necessarily divided along gender lines and thereby reveals a broader understanding of gender roles. The fishing derby is also an ethnographic example of skill as traditional knowledge and may inform how Inuit, and hunter-gatherers more generally, relate to the world around them.

Proclaiming the New Heterosexual Family

2020 ◽  
pp. 138-174
Author(s):  
Taylor G. Petrey
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Religious Right ◽  
Church Leaders ◽  
Political Campaigns ◽  
Same Sex ◽  
Reparative Therapy ◽  
Same Sex Marriage ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

In 1995 Church leaders issued “The Family: A Proclamation to the World,” which codified LDS teachings on sex, marriage, and gender roles. The document coincided with further accommodation to feminist concerns, but increased legal and political opposition to same-sex marriage. Church leaders backed political campaigns with the Religious Right in Hawaii, California, and elsewhere to ban same-sex marriage, at the same time also showing greater accommodation to other LGBT rights. Church teachings on homosexuality also evolved in this period to confront biological etiologies, but remained committed to reparative therapy.

Talking Union

Red Strains ◽  
2013 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ernie Lieberman
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Civil Rights ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
World War ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Protest Songs ◽  
And Gender ◽  
The Cold War ◽  
Progressive Party ◽  
American Left

Ernie Lieberman grew up in the midst of the folk revival that took place during the Depression, World War II, and the Cold War. This chapter describes how folk music came to be important to the American left, the issues on which they focused (union organizing, racial and gender equality, peace), and Lieberman's own participation in the movement. As a child in the 1930s, he admired Pete Seeger and Woody Guthrie, and sang folk and protest songs at summer camp, Progressive party conventions, and on tours for the Civil Rights Congress. In the 1950s, he performed and recorded albums with the first interracial folk group, and later, as political folk music began to reach a wider audience, became a songwriter.

scholarly journals Changing Rwandan vision of women and land, in the heart of the house, at the outskirts of the world

Afrika Focus ◽  
1999 ◽  
Vol 15 (1-2) ◽  
Author(s):  
Danielle De Lame
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Land Rights ◽  
Moral Justification ◽  
Daily Lives ◽  
Gender Complementarity ◽  
The Family ◽  
The World ◽  
Household Heads ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Peasant Women

Because the current situation is unstable and the countryside is out of reach, it is impossible to assess in what measures and ways the fact that many women carry the daily burden alone will affect, more generally, the views about gender and gender roles. Women can, indeed keep working in the name of their dead or disappeared husbands; still bearing in mind the old ideology of a continuity based on fidelity to the family ancestors. The disillusions about the further reaching effects on local communities, society, and nation, of beliefs related to the ritual gender complementarity will probably result in a yet more individualized vision of the family. It is realistic to suppose that the rising generation of women would have other views about their own rights, and be less submissive to men if they were, by law, recognized as equal to them on all grounds. This was, however, far from achieved before the genocide, even after the reform of the law which put daughters at an equal footing with sons as far as succession to land rights was concerned. The fact that a majority of households are now female-headed is no, in itself, a guarantee against oppression. If, then, gender roles remain perceived as unchanged, a majority of women will be oppressed in a very crude manner, that is to say, with very little "moral" justification of their exploitation. It also remains to be seen what kind of negotiation the peasant women will be able to achieve with those in power, either male or female.The hope for change rests with active efforts at providing women who are said to be 70% of household heads now, with structures giving them sufficient knowledge, efficacy and credit to organize without being patronized. There are examples of such attempts but their success can only be achieved on the basis of a democracy aiming at giving all access to basic rights. The old modes of exploitation and patronage could perfectly become, under the guises of feminism, associated with female cosmopolitanism. Peasant women could well submit themselves to its local bearers, as they would see no other avenues to the wider world and its wealth. Conformity would take its toll again. Nothing much could have improved in their daily lives, even if the old vision of an engendered fertile land has vanished. 

scholarly journals Performativity analysis in Hyder’s the Sound of Falling Leaves

2021 ◽  
Vol 4 (2) ◽  
pp. 337-343
Author(s):  
Hira Ali ◽  
Zahir Jang Khattak ◽  
Abdul Ghaffar Ikram ◽  
Shehrzad Ameena Khattak
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Virginia Woolf ◽  
Judith Butler ◽  
Sex And Gender ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
Men And Women ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Women Rights ◽  
Status Of Women

The present study delves into the concept of gender by applying the theory of performativity on Qurratulain Hyder’s story ‘The Sound of Falling leaves’. Awareness of the distinction between sex and gender started with the first wave of feminism. Many renowned critics like Virginia Woolf, Simone de Beauvoir, Kate Millet, and Judith Butler have explained this distinction. Writers portray society in text and many writers have tried their hands to depict the role, values, and status of women in a male-dominated patriarchal society. There are many reforms regarding the protection of women and to make women gender better, but we still find a lot of lacks. Gender is defined by society. One is born with sex and becomes a man or woman as he or she starts to identify with society. Gender is constructed on the base of performance of speech and actions which are repeated again and again until it becomes part of our consciousness (Butler, 1990). We have not found any research on this story regarding the application of the theory of performativity. So, this research is designed to examine to what extent the theory of performativity is true by discussing the portrayal of women in this story. This research also analyzes to what extent there is change in a Subcontinent society regarding therole and status of female. Discussion and analysis of text supports the theory of performativity. Instead of many reforms for women rights still woman of subcontinent like ‘Tanvir Fatima’ are suffering. She becomes victim of conservative society who is not ready to accept modern girls. She is beaten terribly by Khushwaqt and has no say. Her dreams are shattered by both cruel men and women. Further, this study also provides suggestions about how we can improve gender roles and provide healthy atmosphere for both men and women who can play the leading roles for the betterment of the world.

Winterlong: Elizabeth Hand at the End of the World

1998 ◽  
pp. 168-177
Author(s):  
Gwyneth Jones
Keyword(s):  
Gender Difference ◽  
Gender Roles ◽  
Warning Messages ◽  
The World ◽  
End Of The World ◽  
And Gender

In this review of The End of the World, Jones recognises Elizabeth Hand’s embrace of gender difference and gender roles. She also foregrounds the narrative’s inclusion of warning messages and morals.

Ági Szalóki and Multiethnic Femininity

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barbara Rose Lange
Keyword(s):  
Middle Class ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Children's Music ◽  
Far Right ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Best Response ◽  
And Gender ◽  
Ethnicity And Gender ◽  
Mixed Ethnicity

Chapter 2 details how female performers with Romani (Gypsy) and Magyar ancestry face constraints of mixed ethnicity and gender, discussing the career of singer Ági Szalóki. The chapter outlines how Magyar female performers singing music of all regional ethnicities contributed to the folk revival in Hungary from the 1970s to the present; the international star Márta Sebestyén gave inspiration to young minority performers such as Szalóki, who then oriented their solo careers toward the liberalized society and the middle class. The chapter details how Szalóki left a Balkan Romani-style band to pursue solo projects that blended folk song and jazz, resisting expectations that Romani and other folk music should sound rustic. The chapter argues that Szalóki’s projects got the best response in feminine spheres such as children’s music, even as her solo work challenged ideas around male leadership. It describes ways in which Szalóki spoke out against far-right nationalism.

Further Developments, 1957–1958

2017 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
Great Britain ◽  
Atlantic Ocean ◽  
Folk Music ◽  
The United States ◽  
Folk Song ◽  
Folk Revival ◽  
Greenwich Village ◽  
Music Scene ◽  
The Village

This chapter describes the folk music scene from 1957 to 1958. It discusses the emergence of the Kingston Trio that energized the folk revival; folk festivals and recordings; the continued popularity of skiffle in Great Britain; magazines the covered the folk music scene, including Sing Out! and Caravan; and Alan Lomax's return to the United States after seven years of folk-song collecting across Europe. According to Greenwich Village musician Dave Van Ronk, “the last years of the 1950s were a great time to be in the Village.” “It was not too crazy yet, but there was an exhilarating sense of something big right around the corner. As for the folk scene, it was beginning to look as if it might have a future, and me with it.” What was happening in Greenwich Village was rapidly spreading around the country. Folk music, broadly defined, appeared to have a bright future, while spanning the Atlantic Ocean.

Holding the fort in the world wars

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Elizabeth C. Macknight
Keyword(s):  
Gender Roles ◽  
Gender Relations ◽  
Class Relations ◽  
Military Operations ◽  
Local Authorities ◽  
Financial Difficulties ◽  
Vichy Regime ◽  
The World ◽  
And Gender

To what extent did the world wars change the nature of class relations on and around landed estates? How were gender relations and gender roles in aristocratic households affected by the absence and return of men? Were nobles able to afford to repair the damage to property resulting from military operations or wartime neglect? Drawing on Bourdieu’s writings about conversions and reconversions of capital, this chapter details noblewomen’s endeavours to maintain properties during men’s wartime absence and through the financial difficulties of the interwar decades. It documents the interactions between nobles, local authorities and representatives of the Monuments historiques, as well as liaison between heritage associations and state officials during and after the Vichy regime.

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