Movement of the People

Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship

Mary N. Taylor (Autor)

Buch | Hardcover

316 Seiten

2021
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
978-0-253-05781-5 (ISBN)

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Since 1990, thousands of Hungarians have vacationed at summer camps devoted to Hungarian folk dance in the Transylvanian villages of neighboring Romania. This folk tourism and connected everyday practices of folk dance revival take place against the backdrop of an increasingly nationalist political environment in Hungary.

In Movement of the People, Mary N. Taylor takes readers inside the folk revival movement known as dancehouse (táncház) that sustains myriad events where folk dance is central and championed by international enthusiasts and UNESCO. Contextualizing táncház in a deeper history of populism and nationalism, Taylor examines the movement's emergence in 1970s socialist institutions, its transformation through the postsocialist period, and its recent recognition by UNESCO as a best practice of heritage preservation.

Approaching the populist and popular practices of folk revival as a form of national cultivation, Movement of the People interrogates the everyday practices, relationships, institutional contexts, and ideologies that contribute to the making of Hungary's future, as well as its past.

Mary N. Taylor is Assistant Director at the Center for Place, Culture and Politics at the Graduate Center, City University of New York.

Preface
Introduction: The Aesthetic Nation
1. Making the Nation-State in 19th and 20th Century Hungary
2. What Kind of Nation? Folk National Cultivation in the Interwar Period
3. Socialist Cultural Management, Civic Cultivation, and Associational Life in Late Socialism
4. The Táncház Revolution: Reviving Folk Dance As Social Dance
5. Folk Dance as Mother Tongue: National Conduct and The Production of Collective Memory
6. Socialist State Formation, Táncház Frameworks of Sense, and the Origins of the Postsocialist Cultural Turn
7. The Place of Heritagization: Culture Talk amid Shifting Property and Citizenship Regimes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	16.08.2021
Zusatzinfo	21 Illustrations, black and white; 3 Maps
Verlagsort	Bloomington, IN
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	635 g
Themenwelt	Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Sport ► Tanzen / Tanzsport
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie ► Volkskunde
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	0-253-05781-7 / 0253057817
ISBN-13	978-0-253-05781-5 / 9780253057815
Zustand	Neuware