Monograph includes twelve articles from European folklorists and ethnologists with new perspectives in folklore studies research in the twenty-first century. In the present day and age – when the borders between low and high culture, and between popular and elite culture, are being blurred, when folklore as “information about a specific nation" and folklore as “tradition" is passing into global cultural currents, where it acquires new connotations and functions – it is necessary to rethink the value and relevance of folklore in culture and society. Publication reveals what folklore actually is today and presents newly introduced approaches to studying folklore phenomena and newly introduced methodologies and perceptions of what is considered folklore – whether it involves pronounced contextuality and a return to texts, or whether folklore as a concept has become a polyvalent and perhaps bleached journalistic label that in modern cultural and social processes denotes something that is a relic and is connected merely to the past and times long gone.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 41521965This thematic publication with a rather provocative title discusses questions as to whether the selected musical phenomena are a fossilised form of tradition, folklore and folklorism and, as such, are trapped in a museum-like image isolated from contemporary cultural life, or whether we are looking at active events, changes and adjustments within contemporary society. The aim of the publication is to present the openness and diversity of views on folklore and to create a connection between (past and present) folklore phenomena, between researchers and between their fields of expertise.
C.01 Editorial board of a foreign/international collection of papers/book
COBISS.SI-ID: 35680301The bilingual exhibition in Museum Ribnica was created as part further work of a very successful previous research project. The exhibition presents Matt Hoyer (born in Slovenia as Matija Arko), his gramophone records and musical activities in USA. In addition to the book (Kunej and Kunej, 2016), the exhibition was another way how to present an entirely overlooked and forgotten musician (Slovenian immigrant in USA) to people in Arko’s homeland.
F.28 Organising an exhibition
COBISS.SI-ID: 38496301The achievement constist of membership of the program and the organizing committee of the symposium as well as editorial work for the program booklet. The symposium was organized by the institute in collaboration with the Institute of cultural and memory studies. We hosted an annual international scientific meeting of ethnomusicologists at the XXVIII European Seminar in Ethnomusicology (ESEM) that took place from 19 to 23 September 2012 in Ljubljana. The symposium topic National Past in Music/National Musical Past: Music and Cultural Memory in post1989 Europe has encouraged scholars to have approached the topic with different and very interesting aspects: by exploring the ways in which current musical forms address the past events and by investigating the strategies of reshaping and renarrating musics from the past in the dominant discourses of the present. The symposium has raised interest in the international scientific discourse and media, as well as its contributions were published in several international scientific journals.
B.01 Organiser of a scientific meeting
COBISS.SI-ID: 263157248EtnoFletno is a mobile and web app of Slovenian Folk Songs, publicly available since 2015. The collection was gathered by the domain experts and represents relevant topics over major historical periods. It is based on modern mobile technologies and introduces innovative technological solutions, e.g. querry-by-humming, symbolic, and geolocation search. It is especially focused on younger population.
F.29 Contribution to the development of national cultural identity
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