Po stopách Bélu Bartóka – piesňová tradícia v obci Dražovce pri Nitre
In the Tracks of Béla Bartók – the song tradition in the village of Dražovce pri Nitre

Summary/Abstract: Slovenské ľudové piesne, a collection of Slovak folk songs by Béla Bartók (1881–1945) was produced on the basis of field reserach conducted in the years 1906–1918, though the three parts of this collection were published gradually only from the middle of the 20th century (1959, 1970, 2007). The greater part of the song material from the Ponitrie region in this collection comes from the village of Dražovce pri Nitre (109 entries). In the article we address the influence of Bartók’s collecting activity on the development and contemporary state of the song tradition in the village of Dražovce. We trace the memories of local inhabitants of Bartók’s collecting work, handed down in this village as part of local memory. Comparison of the historical entries with the contemporary register highlights not only the long life of part of this repertoire with its variant mutations, but also the powerful awareness among the inhabitants of Bartók’s activity in this village.

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