Book Description
Familiar and littl-known folk stories from Hungary.
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Publisher : Oxford University Press, USA
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 34,97 MB
Release : 1992
Category : Folk literature, Hungarian
ISBN : 9780192741486
Familiar and littl-known folk stories from Hungary.
Author : Baroness Emmuska Orczy Orczy
Publisher : Library of Alexandria
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 37,7 MB
Release : 2020-09-28
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 1613108850
Author : Linda Dégh
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 407 pages
File Size : 30,44 MB
Release : 2014-06-23
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 1317946685
First published in 1996. There has been no more important relationship between folk artist and folklorist than that between Zsuzsanna Palkó and Linda Dégh. Dégh’s painstaking collection of Mrs. Palkó’s tales attracted the admiration of the Hungarian-speaking world. In 1954 Mrs. Palkó was named Master of Folklore by the Hungarian government and summoned to Budapest to receive ceremonial recognition. The unlettered 74-year-old woman from Kakasd had become “Aunt Zsuzsi” to Linda Dégh—and was about to become one of the world’s best known storytellers, through Dégh’s work.
Author : Gyula Illyés
Publisher :
Page : 332 pages
File Size : 42,52 MB
Release : 1970
Category : Folklore
ISBN :
Author : Mary N. Taylor
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 316 pages
File Size : 49,26 MB
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : History
ISBN : 0253057825
Since 1990, thousands of Hungarians have vacationed at summer camps devoted to Hungarian folk dance in the Transylvanian villages of neighboring Romania. This folk tourism and connected everyday practices of folk dance revival take place against the backdrop of an increasingly nationalist political environment in Hungary. In Movement of the People, Mary N. Taylor takes readers inside the folk revival movement known as dancehouse (táncház) that sustains myriad events where folk dance is central and championed by international enthusiasts and UNESCO. Contextualizing táncház in a deeper history of populism and nationalism, Taylor examines the movement's emergence in 1970s socialist institutions, its transformation through the postsocialist period, and its recent recognition by UNESCO as a best practice of heritage preservation. Approaching the populist and popular practices of folk revival as a form of national cultivation, Movement of the People interrogates the everyday practices, relationships, institutional contexts, and ideologies that contribute to the making of Hungary's future, as well as its past.
Author : Béla Szilárd Jávorszky
Publisher : Kossuth Kiadó
Page : 578 pages
File Size : 13,88 MB
Release : 2016-02-03
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9630985098
The first táncház in Budapest was held on May 6, 1972. It began as a private event for insiders, but within a year, it was swarming with urban youth. Thus began a grassroots revolution of dance, culture, and lifestyle, organized without political aims, which is referred to today as the táncház movement. And still, the táncház keeps attracting hundreds of thousands worldwide from Toronto to Tokyo. The expression táncház – literally: dance house – comes from Szék (Sic), a small Hungarian village in Transylvania, referring to their regular dance nights, and an opportunity for having fun, socializing, and dancing. And it soon became apparent that this rural folk tradition could also work in a contemporary urban environment. This book is the first comprehensive account of the history of Hungarian folk and world music. It is factual, yet easy to read. It sets out to present the social, cultural, and musical ingredients of folk music. It aims to analyse its trends, show the development of different styles, and introduce the key artists and evaluate their contribution to the genre.
Author : W. Henry Jones
Publisher :
Page : 560 pages
File Size : 20,2 MB
Release : 1889
Category : Folk-lore, Hungarian
ISBN :
Part of "a vast and precious store of folk-lore...found amongst the Magyars" (preface), including stories of giants, fairies and witches, and superstitions concerning animals, plants, stones, and sundries.
Author : Tom Weidlinger
Publisher : Simon and Schuster
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 31,1 MB
Release : 2019-04-16
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 1943006970
The Restless Hungarian is the saga of an extraordinary life set against the history of the rise of modernism, the Jewish Diaspora, and the Cold War. A Hungarian Jew whose inquiring spirit helped him to escape the Holocaust, Paul Weidlinger became one of the most creative structural engineers of the twentieth century. As a young architect, he broke ranks with the great modernists with his radical idea of the “Joy of Space.” As an engineer, he created the strength behind the beauty in mid-century modern skyscrapers, churches, museums, and he gave concrete form to the eccentric monumental sculptures of Pablo Picasso, Isamu Noguchi, and Jean Dubuffet. In his private life, he was a divided man, living behind a wall of denial as he lost his family to war, mental illness, and suicide. In telling his father’s story, the author sifts meaning from the inspiring and contradictory narratives of a life: a motherless child and a captain of industry, a clandestine communist who designed silos for the world’s deadliest weapons during the Cold War, a Jewish refugee who denied he was a Jew, a husband who was terrified of his wife’s madness, and a man whose personal saints were artists.
Author : Anne Szalavary
Publisher : Dover
Page : 138 pages
File Size : 16,52 MB
Release : 1980
Category : Decoration and ornament
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Author : Linda Dégh
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 486 pages
File Size : 11,61 MB
Release : 1989
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780253316790
A study of the Szeklers and their folktales.