43rd National Táncház Festival & Fair • 5–7 April 2024
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Starting page: 34
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Folk music research and nationalism – by Bartók Béla first published in Tükör 1937. V. 3. Pp 166-168. Bartók describes a situation where an ethnographer collected material that he publishes as belonging to his own ethnic group. Another ethnic group becomes insulted claiming that the same material belongs instead to them. He mentions “insulted national feeling”. He writes that “where politics start, is where art, science, rights and understanding end….in every branch of science international cooperation is desirable…and is especially needed in folk music research…”