Festum Patrimonium: Between the Festivalisationof Traditional Music Heritage and the Heritagisation of Traditional Music Festivals
Festum Patrimonium: Between the Festivalisationof Traditional Music Heritage and the Heritagisation of Traditional Music Festivals

Author(s): Joanna Dziadowiec-Greganić
Subject(s): Anthropology, Social Sciences, Fine Arts / Performing Arts, Music, Sociology, Culture and social structure
Published by: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Jagiellońskiego
Keywords: festival studies; performance studies; critical heritage studies; heritagisation processes; intangible heritage
Summary/Abstract: The chapter is an attempt to analyse the phenomenon of broadly understood music heritage festivals from two main perspectives: the heterodox theory of heritage and the interdisciplinary critical heritage studies, as well as performance and interdisciplinary festiwal studies. The titular tension between festivalisation of heritage and heritagisation of festivals will be shown on the examples of different kinds of contemporary festivals based on traditional music that take place in Poland. A cross-section of the most representative examples in these events’ diverse categories will be presented and analysed. Among the festivals considered here there are those belonging to the following genres: folkloristic, folk, ethno, regional, minority, intercultural, neofolk, ethno-fusions, and those focusing on broadly understood intangible heritage. Apart from outlining the general panorama of such events in Poland, the article also aims at showing how music festivals are not only occasions for celebrating cultural heritage, but themselves become its significant part.

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