Movement of the People: Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship

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Indiana University Press, Aug 31, 2021 - History - 316 pages

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.

 

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Contents

The Aesthetic Nation
1
One Making the NationState in Nineteenth and TwentiethCentury Hungary
23
Two What Kind of Nation? Folk National Cultivation in the Interwar Period
51
Three Socialist Cultural Management Civic Cultivation and Associational Life in Late Socialism
84
Reviving Folk Dance as Social Dance
111
National Conduct and the Production of Collective Memory
147
Six Socialist State Formation Táncház Frameworks of Sense and the Origins of the Postsocialist Cultural Turn
181
Culture Talk amid Shifting Property and Citizenship Regimes
214
Conclusion
247
Bibliography
261
Index
291
About the Author
301
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About the author (2021)

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

Bibliographic information

TitleMovement of the People: Hungarian Folk Dance, Populism, and Citizenship
New anthropologies of Europe
AuthorMary N. Taylor
Editionillustrated
PublisherIndiana University Press, 2021
ISBN0253057825, 9780253057822
Length316 pages
Subjects ›  › 

History / Europe / Austria & Hungary
History / Europe / General
Performing Arts / Dance / Folk
Social Science / Customs & Traditions
  
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