A (nép)dal a nemzeti identitás hordozója. A széki énektilalmak margójára

Tasnády, Erika

Erdélyi Múzeum-Egyesület

2016-06-21T11:22:32Z

2016-06-21T11:22:32Z

2015

2015

tanulmány

folk-songs

singing behaviour

national emblem

national identity

nationalist conflict

Transylvanian villages

néprajz

This paper proposes an analysis of folk songs as national anthems or symbols people would federate on, without taking into account boundaries of any kind following a scientific paradigm. According to the author, the nationalist dimension of a song is even more obvious in the conflicts associated to it. The paper’s first part introduces conflicts driven by nationalism and linked one way or another to a song, from memories gathered in the Szék village, Transylvania, Romania. More similar examples are given of prohibition supported by folk songs under the austrian monarchy. Traditional folk songs carry semanticaly rich contents, their meanings being often contradictory. The author researches a possible, more theoretical explanation to this in the second half of the text: why, and how, has folk singing first started to carry multiple meanings, and why repertoires from various origins and contexts, and providing very different contents can convey similar meanings? Before the emergence of the 19th century’s nationalism-oriented contents, repertoires with ethnic background most likely existed, that conveyed foreign symbols from people who spoke another language. Folk songs is an always updated kind of sketch, which meaning depends on social status, education, or other factors. The national/ethnic hallmark is only a part of the semantic fi eld; it can however acquire a primary role.

39-52. old.

magyar

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http://hdl.handle.net/10598/29536

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Erdélyi Múzeum LXXVII. évf, 2015; 2. sz.

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