Pieśni pogranicza
Songs of the Borderland

Summary/Abstract: The microcosmos of the Sejny and Krasnogruda borderland produces questions to which the author – a representative of a deeply divided society – does not find an answer. What does this religion of the borderland – which is not religion – consist of? How is it possible that rites connected with it prove themselves so well – and how could they appear in American scenery? Who would like to participate in them? In what way could those practices be disseminated, and above which of our numerous divisions? The author notes that music – a joint resonating of bodies in time and space – is an irreplaceable element, similarly to a willingness (so alien to the American polis) to become interested in the potential of deriving from the tradition of the mystery.

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