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Do we want to keep folk song alive?
Vargyas Lajos’ writings on cultural policy
Editor – Vargyas Gábor (Vargyas Lajos’ son)
Editing staff: Domokos Mária, Paksa Katalin, Rudásné Bajcsay Márta, Szalay Olga, Szőkéné Károlyi Annamária
Hungarian ethnomusicologist Vargyas Lajos (1914-2007) worked at the Folk Music Department of the Museum of Ethnography, he was director of the Folk Music Research Group at the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and then scientific advisor to the Institute of Musicology.
This special issue was prompted by the celebration of Vargyas Lajos’ 100th birthday and a conference held in his honor and memory in September of 2014. The conference was organized by the Hungarian Academy of Sciences’ Institute of Ethnography and Musicology.
This special issue was also prompted by a new series of nationally televised folk talent contests that began around 2014. The new series brought up many of the same or similar questions, arguments and considerations about performing and preserving folklore material - as those printed here. The new series was/is called “Fölszállott a páva”, but is often referred to as simply “Páva”.
This is a collection of writings discussing theoretical issues surrounding folk music, folk dance, folklore, the dance house movement, authentic folk music and scientific research on the subjects.