Unfaithful wives are a common topic in European ballad tradition. The European tradition—including Spanish, Catalan, Portuguese, Sephardic (the entire Hispanic tradition), German, English, Scottish, French, Italian, Mongolian, Romanian, Hungarian, Serbian, Bulgarian, Croatian, and Slovenian ballads—thematizes unfaithfulness using a tragic but also humorous connotation. This article focuses on the Slovenian ballad “Nezvesta gospa s tremi stražarji/A” (An Unfaithful Wife with Three Guards/A), in which unfaithfulness is presented in a feudal environment and the exposed adultery is punished by death, and analyzes the ballad’s deep structure based on various theories addressing adultery.
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COBISS.SI-ID: 32939309The lecture opened the question of the researcher’s role in the contemporary tourist-oriented events. Slovenia’s independence, an economic recession, and the accompanying transition exacerbated the crises experienced by small Alpine towns. They are therefore seeking new opportunities through tourist-oriented events that rely on presentations of their history in order to revitalize their life. The article examines social motivations for the Folk Costume Days in Kamnik and the role of the ethnology and folklore studies. The informants (the participants and the spectators) experience the event and the researcher’s role at different levels. The examination tries to answer the question, what level should the ethnologist and folklorist descend to in order to be the closest the informants?
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COBISS.SI-ID: 33302317The paper aim was presentation of the Hoyer Trio and its contribution to the co-shaping of the space of dance music in the 1920s. Based on the Hoyer Trio discography, it was presented to which extent their 78rpm recordings were based on folk-dance tradition from which the members of the trio originated, how they contributed to the forming of the Slovenian ethnical space in multicultural American society, and how the contact between the folk-dance tradition of the original environment and the commercially-orientated music industry of the multi-ethnical America look like.
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