This article opens new perspectives on research into Slovenian non-material culture within the European context by focusing on song tradition and, comparatively, also on literature. Based on contemporary folklore and literary studies, this articler seeks to interpret new cultural dynamics in Slovenian folk culture in the light of various concepts and theorethical discourses such as archetypes, culture and globalization, collective cultural memory, identity, and intertextuality.
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The article presents the circumstances of the origin of wax cylinders with early recorded folk songs, how and when they were transferred to the museum, and to whom they were later passed on. Archive documents show that museum’s staff never recorded anything with the phonograph, although the museum was in possession of wax cylinders with some time, and an article in the first volume of the scientific periodical Etnolog mentions that the Ethnographic Museum had “acquired” a phonograph and “collected several tens of songs on cylinders”.
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