The three-days sessions of this year’s colloquium will feature approximately 20 presentations, including:

Ballengee Christopher L.: Folklorizing the Present: Tassa Drumming and the Reconfiguration of “Folk” in Trinidad & TobagoGacek Gabriela: Potpourri as Politics: Functions and Transformations of Folk Melodies in the Ballet Z krakowiakiem do Wrocławia (1946)
Kratochvíl Matěj: Socialist-Cybernetic Folklore. Folk Song Research in Czechoslovakia between Ideology and Technology
Lomen Kristina: Pentatonicism in the Song Tradition of the Slovaks of Vojvodina: Ethnomusicological Research and Music-Theoretical Analysis
Pivoda Ondřej: Folk Song as the "Starting Point for the Development of Compositional Creativity": The Folk Song in Leoš Janáček’s Lectures at the Master Class of the Prague Conservatory
Prendergast Kalee Rose: Folk, Traditional and Folklorized Music in Galicia: Historical, Political, and Contemporary Perspectives
Štefková Markéta: From “Barbarism” to Vitalism: Humor in Béla Bartók’s Engagement with Slovak Folk Music
Vejvodová Veronika: Selling Songs in the Czech Folk Spirit: The Role of German Publisher Simrock in the Creation, Publication, and Promotion of Dvořák’s Song Cycle In Folk Tone

 

The programme will also include roundtable discussions, a social gathering at the FAINE café within the building of the Department, and an accompanying concert featuring works by Béla Bartók and Miloslav Ištvan.

The final programme will be published in the first half of October.