The Routledge Companion to English Folk Performance

2021 ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Folk Performance

Cultural Labour

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Brahma Prakash
Keyword(s):  
Conceptual Framework ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Life Experience ◽  
Social Hierarchies ◽  
Folk Performance ◽  
And Performance ◽  
The Relationship

Folk performances reflect the life-worlds of a vast section of subaltern communities in India. What is the philosophy that drives these performances, the vision that enables as well as enslaves these communities to present what they feel, think, imagine, and want to see? Can such performances challenge social hierarchies and ensure justice in a caste-ridden society? In Cultural Labour, the author studies bhuiyan puja (land worship), bidesia (theatre of migrant labourers), Reshma-Chuharmal (Dalit ballads), dugola (singing duels) from Bihar, and the songs and performances of Gaddar, who was associated with Jana Natya Mandali, Telangana: he examines various ways in which meanings and behaviour are engendered in communities through rituals, theatre, and enactments. Focusing on various motifs of landscape, materiality, and performance, the author looks at the relationship between culture and labour in its immediate contexts. Based on an extensive ethnography and the author’s own life experience as a member of such a community, the book offers a new conceptual framework to understand the politics and aesthetics of folk performance in the light of contemporary theories of theatre and performance studies.

Book review: Brahma Prakash. 2019. Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India

2021 ◽  
Vol 55 (2) ◽  
pp. 287-290
Author(s):  
Chandan Bose
Keyword(s):  
New Delhi ◽  
Oxford University ◽  
Folk Performance ◽  
Oxford University Press

Brahma Prakash. 2019. Cultural Labour: Conceptualizing the ‘Folk Performance’ in India. New Delhi: Oxford University Press. xvi + 332 pp. Bibliography, index. Rs 1195 (hardback).

scholarly journals Structure of a Story-Telling Performance Among Carpatho-Rusyns in Zakarpats'ka Oblast' of Ukraine: A Case Study

Folklorica ◽  
2016 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Elena Boudovskaia
Keyword(s):  
Discourse Markers ◽  
Story Telling ◽  
Micro Structure ◽  
Folk Performance ◽  
Collective Creation ◽  
Everyday Reality ◽  
Folk Stories ◽  
The Village

This article analyses the transcript of the story-telling session with two participants, an 89-year-old woman and a 54-year-old man, that I audio-recorded in August of 2014 in the village of Novoselytsia in the Transcarpathian region of Ukraine. Although Western  krainian and Rusyn folk stories have been extensively collected since 1880-s (Hnatiuk 1897, 1898, 1900, Rozdol's'kyi 1899, 1900, etc.), entire story-telling sessions in these region have not been studied. My transcript reflects certain features of story-telling performance's macro- and micro-structure that either do not get recorded or get edited out in publications of folk texts, such as interaction between participants, discourse markers for organizing performance, repetitions, and digressions into everyday reality. After analyzing these features using Hymes' approach to linguistic and discourse markers in folk performance, I foreground the precise mechanism through which the collective creation of folklore [Jakobson and Bogatyrev 1980 [1929]] takes place.

scholarly journals The Life of Mask Puppet in Jombang: Its Functions and Continuity

2015 ◽  
Vol 6 (2) ◽  
pp. 222-236
Author(s):  
Setyo Yanuartuti
Keyword(s):  
Data Analysis ◽  
Primary School ◽  
School Teacher ◽  
Social Solidarity ◽  
Primary School Teacher ◽  
Analysis Model ◽  
Interactive Analysis ◽  
The People ◽  
Folk Performance ◽  
Latent Function

Wayang Topeng (Mask Puppet) in Jombang is a folk performance whose presence is needed by the society. Along with the development of the society, it experiences downturn. Currently, various attempts have been made by artists in Jombang to preserve the performance. The study aims to investigate the function and continuity Wayang Topeng functions in todays society. Observation, interviews and literature studies were used to collect the data. The interactive analysis was used as the data analysis model. The result of the study shows that Wayang Topeng in Jombang still has manifest functions such as a vow ritual, a giver of inner experience, a breadwinner, and an entertainment; and latent function which is to form social solidarity. The life of Wayang Topeng after being raised by Purwa has received good response from the people and gained popularity. However, because the regeneration process is not well managed, the existence of this art performance is at the tip of torpor and deterioration. The revival of Wayang Topeng in Jombang is realized soon after a primary school teacher has tried to revitalize it.Wayang Topeng di Jombang merupakan pertunjukan rakyat yang kehadirannya dibutuhkan oleh masyarakat.Seiring dengan perkembangan masyarakat wayang topeng ini mengalami kegoncangan sehingga hilang. Berbagai usaha telah dilakukan oleh seniman-seniman di Jombang hingga saat ini telah muncul kembali. Penelitian ini dilakukan untuk mengetahui fungsi wayang topeng di masyarakat saat ini dan mengetahui kontinuitas kehidupannya. Teknik pengumpulan data menggunakan observasi, wawancara dan studi pustaka, dan analisis interaktif sebagai model analisis datanya. Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa wayang topeng di Jombang masih memiliki fungsi manifes yaitu fungsi ritual nadzar, sebagai pemberi pengalaman batin, sebagai pencari nafkah dan sebagai hiburan; serta fungsi laten yaitu pembentuk solidaritas sosial. Kehidupan wayang topeng setelah dimunculkan oleh Purwa mendapatkan tanggapan yang baik oleh masyarakat sehingga cukup eksis, namun karena proses regenerasi tidak dilakukan menyebabkan kesenian ini mati suri dan kemerosotan.Kebangkitan kembali telah dialami oleh wayang topeng di Jombang setelah ada seseorang guru SD berusaha untuk melakukan revitalisasi.

Folklore and Dialectical Materialism. A Case Study of Ethnomusicological Research in Communist Romania

2020 ◽  
Vol 65 (2) ◽  
pp. 259-275
Author(s):  
Theodor Constantiniu
Keyword(s):  
Folk Music ◽  
Contemporary Music ◽  
Dialectical Materialism ◽  
Communist Regime ◽  
Coherent System ◽  
General Belief ◽  
Communist Ideology ◽  
Folk Performance ◽  
Repressive Regime

"Romanian ethnomusicology has a series of less discussed and, implicitly, less understood topics. One of them is the relatively vast literature that addresses the new folklore that appeared after the installation of the communist regime and the folk music of artistic ensembles performed on stage. Most of the texts written on these subjects display a strong political and ideological pressure. Consequently, they are either forgotten or superficially perceived as evidence of a repressive regime, adding to the general belief that the communist regime turned peasant art into an instrument of propaganda. Starting from a study signed by Ioan R. Nicola on music collected from Mărginimea Sibiului, we will try to understand the theoretical horizon and the ideological limitations that influenced the way researchers wrote about contemporary music phenomena in the second half of the twentieth century. Despite the constraints, we argue that ethnomusicologists had at hand a coherent system of analysis of the folk music, which they had to adapt to the official ideology. Keywords: new folklore, amateur artistic ensembles, folk performance, ethnomusicologic research, communist ideology"

Folklore’s Contemporariness: Dynamics of Value Orientation in Bihu

2019 ◽  
Vol 25 (3) ◽  
pp. 177-189
Author(s):  
Dev Nath Pathak ◽  
Moureen Kalita
Keyword(s):  
Identity Politics ◽  
Performance Studies ◽  
Cultural Anthropology ◽  
Value Orientation ◽  
Harvard University ◽  
The Other ◽  
Folklore Studies ◽  
Folk Performance ◽  
And Performance

The folklore studies scholar, such as Dorson (1976, Folklore and fakelore: Essays toward the discipline of folk studies, Harvard: Harvard University Press), was emphatic about the distinction between folklore and ‘fake lore’, one being authentic and the other as invented by the popular industry; however, he paradoxically maintained interest in the contemporariness of folklore. This was a paradox since the contemporariness of folklore is largely, and usually, due to intersections of folk with popular and political. Nevertheless, the emphasis on contemporariness was a harbinger of discussion on the potential dynamics of folklore, and everything buried therein, including value orientation. This essay is guided by the observations emerging from folklore studies, socio-cultural anthropology and performance studies in order to get into a specific case of Bihu, a folk performance inclusive of songs, dance, attires and instruments inter alia in Assam, in the northeast of India. The curious case of Bihu in flux divulges dynamics of value orientation and intersections of identity politics, in the wake of the contemporariness of folklore.

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