What is it about?
This text is devoted to the Polish national dances, which are currently considered to be: the polonez, the mazur, the krakowiak, the oberek and the kujawiak. The author of this paper draws on categories of cultural canon, stereotypisation, myth and phantasm, which can be useful for the interpretation especially of borderline or clearly alien phenomena. The author also discusses the changing functions of dances from the canon, which resulted from external circumstances determined by political events and social processes.
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The author of this paper draws on categories of cultural canon, stereotypisation, myth and phantasm, which can be useful for the interpretation of national dances.
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I hope that I've used categories prove to be widely useful in the study of dance heavily conditioned by social context.
Dr hab. Tomasz M. Nowak
Instytut Muzykologii Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
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This page is a summary of: National Dances in the Canon of Polish Culture, Musicology Today, December 2016, De Gruyter,
DOI: 10.1515/muso-2016-0004.
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