Folkloristika: Call for Papers (2018)

Folklore, 2004

The article introduces the projects, researchers and institutions of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), focusing on folklore studies and ethnology. In the first part we will give an overview of research topics and publications of the Institute of Migration of the SASA and the folklore anthologies and publications of the Institute of Ethnology. We will take a closer look at the recent publications and projects of the renowned folklore theoretician Marija Stanonik (including her collection of regional lore, biblical motifs in folk songs, the lore of Slovenian soldiers in the German army, theoretical approaches).

2019

From the end of the Second World War to the 1990s, Albanian folklore from throughout the Yugoslav space was collected and studied in Kosovo. This opened the possibility of a contact and a collaboration with schools and trends developing in folklore studies among all the peoples of Yugoslavia and beyond. However, this was not the case with folklore studies developing over the border in Albania. Scholarly communication with Albania became possible during the 1990s, yet alongside this conversation there were circumstances that affected the physical existence of the Albanian people in Kosovo. This brought about a period of stagnation from the point of view of folklore studies. For scholars of folklore, as for the whole population at this time, the accent was on survival. Albanian folklore scholars in Kosovo only managed to publish a few learned journal issues a year, thanks to donations from the Albanian Diaspora in Europe. After the year 2000, the conditions and opportunities for the d...

Folklore (Tartu)

The article introduces the projects, researchers and institutions of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences and Arts (SASA), focusing on folklore studies and ethnology. In the first part we will give an overview of re-search topics and publications of the Institute of Migration of the ...

Folklore: Electronic Journal of Folklore, 2005

The overview introduces the centres, scholars and publications of ethnology, folkloristics and visual anthropology at the Scientific Research Centre of the Slovenian Academy of Sciences. A closer look is taken to the principles of folklore collecting and publications by Karel Štrekelj, founder of Slovenian folkloristics. The article introduces the research topics of modern scholars Monika Kropej, Jurij Fikfak and Naško Križnar, and Blaž Telban's ethnic art gallery Skrina.

Traditiones, Vol. 48 No. 3 , 2019

The aim of the article on disciplinary trends in Albanian folkloristic in Kosovo is to offer an overview of folkloristic orientations and impacts related to the social and political status of Albanians in the former Yugoslavia, respectively in Kosovo. The living conditions of Albanians in some Balkan countries have affected the approaches, orientations and schools through which Albanian folklore studies have evolved. In this context, Albanian folklore studies in Kosovo differed from those in Albania during the period under communism when Yugoslavia and Albania had tense or broken diplomatic relations. In this paper, the historical background of the discipline and circumstances of Albanians living in Kosovo are presented. Both had a discernible impact on the research and publications carried out by the Folklore Department at the Institute of Albanology in Prishtina, as the only institution for the scientific research of Albanian folklore. Its research methodology, paradigms, publications as well as the status of folklore studies today provide an overview of folkloristic in Kosovo. Keywords: folkloristic, paradigms, folklore, methodology, Kosovo Albanians, Kosovo

Journal of Folklore Research: An International Journal …, 2010

Narodna umjetnost 35/1:53-71, 1998

The Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research is the only institution in the Republic of Croatia in which ethnomusicological research has been carried out-in the sense of research subject (folk music / folklore music / traditional music / music) and/or in the sense of the approach that connects music and culture. During the nineties the paradigm of any music in any context became legitimate but also the individualisation of conceptions, approaches and research themes. In between the principle of researching the plurality of music and music-making and the more narrow priorities of the profession, it is possible to single out several groups of themes and several approach features that appear as a special characteristic of this decade: manifoldness and changeability of folklore music and its role in the construction of identity; music and music-making of recently invisible human groups; music and power in the context of war; de/re-construction of (Croatian) ethnomusicology and applied etnomusicology. Croatian version in Narodna umjetnost 35/2:49-66.

Rasprave, 2018

The terms folklore and tradition (and the derived adjectives) in relation to music have been employed to define the subject of ethnomusicologists’ study. In this article, the meaning of these words is considered in their historical use in ethnomusicology and akin disciplines, as well as in the common sense in English, Italian and Croatian, trying to identify the main shared elements as well as the differences. While folklore is a word of foreign origin integrated in several languages, where it assumes diverse connotations also in terms of esthetical and moral value, the related adjective folk has local equivalents in Italian (popolare) and Croatian (narodni), which have been employed with reference to national musical expressions. Tradition is semantically partly overlapping with folklore, and in recent years the derived adjectives (tradicionalan, tradicijski) have been preferred in Croatian, while in Italian the word traditional (tradizionale) can be used to refer to non-European musics, and in general the locution musiche di tradizione orale is today favoured to define the subject of ethnomusicology. It appears that the national use of these words has marked their local understanding, as well as the related scholarship, and thus a reflection on the use of English in present academic and non-academic contexts is necessary.

1995