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Once Again: On the Concept of “Second Existence Folk Dance”

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  07 March 2019

Andriy Nahachewsky
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Many early western dance historians, influenced by romanticism, never really thought about “folk” dance changing as a historical entity. Since they imagined it connected to the original and pure national spirit of a people, they often assumed that such a dance appeared right from the birth of that people itself, and that it is (or should be) changeless. Dance traditions generally continue on among the peasants as archaic remnants of the olden days (or in some cases, perhaps, they simply become extinct). One could represent this history on a two-dimensional timeline (Figure 1), drawing an arrow to symbolize the dance tradition as it progresses from left to right across time. A ball or node in the line could indicate a specific moment in the dance tradition's history, a documented performance for example.

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Yearbook for Traditional Music , Volume 33 , 2001 , pp. 17 - 28
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Copyright © 2001 by the International Council for Traditional Music

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