The aim of the article is to draw attention to the frequent lack of cooperation between researchers in folklore and literature studies, and to some past inaccuracies, mistakes and errors in folklore research that result from ignoring folkloristic findings. The paper tries to accentuate the locus where interdisciplinary research between folklore and literature studies is not only possible but necessary, especially when identifying and interpreting folklore in literature and literature in folklore.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33260077
The study refers to the question “What to do with folklore?” which expresses the self-reflection of Slovenian folklore studies. A new examination primarily asks whether today this question can be addressed to the same audience as it used to be and ask the same thing. Is it once more directed at society, or does it perhaps demand self-reflection by scholars, who, without extensive theoretical consideration, often find it difficult to justify their research topic and presence today? The thought of the article is therefore stretched between problematizing the central interest of folklore studies and the issue of perspectives on contemporary society.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33400109
The accordion is a national instrument inextricably linked to the Slovenian folk music as well as pop-folk music and has thus contributed its share to the establishment of the national identity in the second half of the 20th century. Lately we can see that there is increasingly appearing in other musical genres as well and as so it "liberates itself" of a pop-folk music instrument label. In the research the "new use" of Slovenian accordion music is studied, which includes the growing number of musicians who play the accordion in an "atypical" way or engage it in other musical genres. The result of a study shows that the accordion is still often used as a tool for "translating the tradition" in the contemporary context, with the aim of mobilizing national feelings.
COBISS.SI-ID: 33366317