PRIMELE ORCHESTRE TRADIȚIONALE ALE CASELOR DE DANS (TÁNCHÁZ)
FIRST TRADITIONAL AND TÁNCHÁZ (“DANCE HOUSE”) ORCHESTRAS

Summary/Abstract: From the second half of the 20th century onwards, the changing musical demands of village society led to a shift from the service-oriented, local, local-needs music-making of village musicians to the theatrical, virtuoso performance of urban gypsy musicians. The influence of the dance house movement played a role in this, as its audience did not exert community control over the musicians. The new generation of musicians of the dance- house movement learn folk music as stage performers from the outset, and their knowledge covers the musical repertoire of the entire Hungarian- speaking world and not just a small region. As a result, they are more inclined to move towards folk music arrangements and even other musical genres, so that neither their repertoire nor their instrumentation can be called authentic folk music, although it is often labelled as such because of its easier marketability. Since the dance house movement has relied on professional support and guidance from folk music research from its inception, in the absence of community control, it should continue to rely on professional control. Therefore, authentic folk music based on archived material resulting from decades of collecting should be kept separate from world music and other commercially based and evolving genres such as folk jazz, folk-rock, etc.

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