Articles by Initial Letters
Nomád nemzedék Kádárkádiában – II. rész
- Issue: 2023/4
- Starting page: 16
- Serie: „MEG KELL A BÚZÁNAK ÉRNI” – 2012
- Author: Zelnik József
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The Nomad Generation during Hungary’s Kádár era/’Kádár’s Arcadia’. By ethnographer, writer Zelnik József – Part 2. Written in 2012 this is an intellectual philosophical piece discussing Hungary’s back to the roots ’Nomad Generation’ and the dance house movements and their place in Hungarian history. He discusses what the re-discovery of folk art and its celebration in dance and music – meant in the early years of the movement. This long article examines the cultural/social/political environment in which the ’renaissance of Hungarian folk arts’ appeared. He discusses ’what really happened over the last half century in Hungary’. In this process he mentions the Bible, Satan, Israel and the Jews, Trianon, Áczél György, Makovecz, many ’isms (social-, liberal-, human-, commun-, progressiv-, utopia-, modern-, etc), the political philosophy of Eric Vogelin, ’gnostic movements’ and Csoóri Sándor (poet, writer, 1930-2016 – ’the true intellectual leader of the dance house movement’). Excerpt from his final comments: ”….through free [recreational] folk dancing, the [dance house] movement found the freedom that was prohibited from social life [of the period] …”