Retuning Culture

Mark Slobin

""Retuning Culture" explores vital new ground in the way musical--as opposed to broad cultural--change has occurred recently in Eastern and Central Europe. It adds substantially to our knowledge of how musical behavior, performance, and traditions act and are acted upon in providing both continuity and adaptation to change."--James Porter, University of California, Los Angeles

Traces the tumultuous and momentous shifts in the music cultures of Central and Eastern Europe

Introduction / Mark Slobin 1Dmitri Pokrovsky and the Russian Folk Music Revival Movement / Theodore Levin 14Kundera's Musical Joke and "Folk" Music in Czechoslovakia, 1948-? / Michael Beckerman 37The Aesthetic of the Hungarian Revival Movement / Judit Frigyesi 54Lakodalmas Rock and the Rejection of Popular Culture in Post-Socialist Hungary / Barbara Rose Lange 76Continuity and Change in Eastern and Central European Traditional Music / Anna Czekanowska 92The Southern Wind of Change: Style and the Politics of Identity in Prewar Yugoslavia / lLjerka Vidic Rasmussen 99The Ilahiya as a Symbol of Bosnian Muslim National Identity / Mirjana Lausevic 117Nationalism on Stage: Music and Change in Soviet Ukraine / Catherine Wanner 136The Romanian Revolution of December 1989 and Its Reflection in Musical Folklore / Steluta Popa 156The Dialectic of Economics and Aesthetics in Bulgarian Music / Timothy Rice 176Wedding Musicians, Political Transition ,and National Consciousness in Bulgaria / Donna A. Buchanan 200Music and Marginality: Roma (Gypsies) of Bulgaria and Macedonia / Carol Silverman 231Change as Confirmation of Continuity As Experienced by Russian Molokans / Margarita Mazo 254Works Cited 277Contributors 293Index 295