Colindatul cu dubele pe Valea Mureşului. De pe uliţele satului pe scenă
Caroling with drums on the Mureş Valley. From the streets of the village on stage

Summary/Abstract: The habit of Iad bands caroling for the Advent is a very old one. The " drummer bands ", as they are named in Arad County, continue ta organize themselves every year for the Advent in the villages of Mureş Valley, this habit reperesenting in this regard a local version of Carpathian youth brotherhood, with deep roots in old Dacian, Germanie (mannerbund), Iran male secret societies. Analyzing the scenario of drum caroling it is carried today, 1 noticed that the drummers continue ta follow the old rules for the organization of the group and ta perform the mandatory sequences of the habit, even meanwhile there have been some simplifications and omissions. In the same ethnographic area in the past 40 years, along with caroling in the streets of the village, came a hybrid form of the habit, that is caroling with drums an stage. Despite the de-ritualization and the desemantization of the gestures, the new form was approved by rural communities, becoming a tradition itself. Its acceptance by the community is obliging the researcher ta consider the analysis for both of them.

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