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

Distinguishing "populistpractices of folk revival as a form of national identity, Movement of the People interrogates the ideologies, institutional contexts, and relationships that contribute to the cultivation of Hungary's future as well as its past.

List of contents

Preface
Introduction: The Aesthetic Nation
1. Making the Nation-State in 19th and 20th Century Hungary
2. What Kind of Nation? Folk National Cultivation in the Interwar Period
3. Socialist Cultural Management, Civic Cultivation, and Associational Life in Late Socialism
4. The Táncház Revolution: Reviving Folk Dance As Social Dance
5. Folk Dance as Mother Tongue: National Conduct and The Production of Collective Memory
6. Socialist State Formation, Táncház Frameworks of Sense, and the Origins of the Postsocialist Cultural Turn
7. The Place of Heritagization: Culture Talk amid Shifting Property and Citizenship Regimes
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index

About the author

Mary N. Taylor

Product details

• Authors: Mary N Taylor, Mary N. Taylor
• Publisher: Indiana University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 31.10.2021
• EAN: 9780253057839
• ISBN: 978-0-253-05783-9
• No. of pages: 316
• Series: New Anthropologies of Europe
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Art > Theatre, ballet