Managing Editor: Editorial Board

Hungarian Heritage (HU ISSN 1585-9924) presents an overall picture of the traditional culture of Hungary and the Hungarian folklore revival. It features original articles on folk literature, folk music, and folk dance (with special focus on the Hungarian táncház movement), and also deals with folk mythology, rituals, customs and games, and traditional arts, crafts, and architecture. Book reviews, and a critical look at some topical exhibitions, films, videos and sound recordings form a part of every issue, as do reports on the late folk dance and music festivals, folk dance and music camps and folk craft fairs. The journal also provides practical and up-to-date information on coming events (festivals, fairs, exhibitions, etc.), and new audio releases. Hungarian Heritage covers the traditional culture of Magyars living within and outside the borders of present-day Hungary, as well as the culture of Hungary’s non-Magyar ethnic minorities. The table of contents for each issue, along with abstracts of the articles and examples of the music discussed, can be seen on the Internet at www.folkline.hu, as can the “The Folk Scene in 2000—Practical Information” section on upcoming events. Editor: MIHÁLY HOPPÁL Assistant Editor: ESZTER CSONKA-TAKÁCS Managing Editor: ÁDÁM MOLNÁR Editorial Board LÁSZLÓ FELFÖLDI (ethnochoreology) †MÁRTA FÜGEDI (folk art) IMRE GRÁFIK (Hungarians living outside Hungary) BÉLA HALMOS (the táncház movement) ÉVA HÉRA (festivals and fairs) ILDIKÓ KRÍZA (folk narrative) IMOLA KÜLLÔS (book reviews) FERENC SEBÔ (ethnomusicology) ATTILA SELMECZI KOVÁCS (exhibitions) JÁNOS TARI (films and film reviews) VILMOS VOIGT (theoretical issues) Editorial correspondence (manuscripts, communications, books, cds, cassettes, etc. for review) should be sent to the European Folklore Institute: [email protected] or Budapest, Szilágyi Dezsô tér 6, H-1011 Hungary. Subscription information: Annual subscription rate, payable by cheque or bank transfer, is US$ 40.00. Orders may be placed with Molnar & Kelemen Oriental Publishers, Szeged, P.O. Box 1195, H-6701 Hungary. Copyright Hungarian Heritage retains the copyright on everything it publishes. Hungarian Heritage (HU ISSN 1585-9924) is published twice a year for the European Folklore Institute by Molnar & Kelemen Oriental Publishers. Front cover illustration The Muzsikás Band Photo by Béla Kása Back cover illustration Photo by Péter Korniss Hungarian Heritage 2000 Volume 1 Numbers 1-2 Spring/Autumn European Folklore Institute Budapest Sponsored by Ministry of National Cultural Heritage The National Cultural Fund of Hungary Maps by Zsuzsa Draskovits Typography and graphic design by János Pusztai © 2000 European Folklore Institute All rights reserved. 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HU ISSN 1585-9924 Printed in Hungary Editorial Preface ........................................................................................................................ 7 Articles Márta Fügedi: The Discovery of Matyó Folk Art ...................................................................... 9 György Györffy: István Györffy, a Pioneer of Hungarian Ethnography .................................... 19 Béla Halmos: The Táncház Movement .................................................................................. 29 Reports László Göncz: Hungarians in the Muravidék .......................................................................... 41 István Nagy and Rozália Raj: The Vajdaság (Voivodina) Center for Hungarian Folklore .......... 45 Imre Gráfik: Where Regions Meet: Carpathian Basin Days .................................................... 48 László Kelemen: The “Final Hour” Folk Music Project ............................................................ 50 Photographic Essay Ferenc Cservenka: Images of Tradition (with an Introduction by Mihály Hoppál) .................. 53 Exhibitions Attila Selmeczi Kovács: “The Folk Culture of Hungary”: The Permanent Exhibition of the Hungarian Museum of Ethnography .............................. 68 Miklós Cseri: The Szentendre Open-Air Museum of Ethnography .......................................... 73 Book Reviews Publications on Hungarian Historical Folklore (Réka Kiss) ...................................................... 77 ACTA 1997. I-II. Székely Nemzeti Múzeum és a Csíki Székely Múzeum Évkönyve (The Annual of the Székely National Museum and the Székely Museum at Csík) (Gábor Dániel Ozsváth) ...................................................................................................... 81 Hagyományos nôi szerepek (Traditional women’s roles) (Márta Fügedi) ................................ 83 Films and Videos Fazekasság I-III. (The potter’s craft) (István Csupor and János Tari) ...................................... 86 Audio Releases The Muzsikás Bartók Album .................................................................................................... 88 Festivals and Fairs Pál Bánszky: Festival of Trades and Crafts ................................................................................ 90 David Francis and Stan Reeves: The Táncház Festival in Budapest ........................................ 93 The Folk Scene in 2000—Practical Information Hungarian Folk Exhibitions and Programs at the Museum of Ethnography ............................ 96 Program at the Szentendre Open-Air Museum of Ethnography .............................................. 99 Folk Dance Festivals and Folk Art Fairs ................................................................................ 102 Hungarian Folk Dance and Folk Music Camps in Hungary and Romania ............................ 110 Where You’ll Find a Táncház ................................................................................................ 111 Gazetteer .................................................................................................................................. 114 Hungarian Heritage Volume 1 2000 Editorial Preface The aim of Hungarian Heritage is to present an of our material culture that society deems worthy of overall picture of the traditional culture of Hungary, being passed on to future generations. Most of these and of the Hungarian folklore revival. The preser- “objects” are of symbolic significance. Indeed, in vation of our cultural heritage has become an espe- many cases, it is precisely this symbolic meaning that cially important task of late. UNESCO has been is of the essence from the community’s point of view, financing special programs for decades to preserve because it serves to define its cultural behavior. We world heritage sites and the samples of material cul- might say that the reproduction of cultural heritage ture found there: churches, palaces, groups of build- is the “grammar” of tradition. ings, and so on. In the 1990s, a special program was This journal will regularly publish studies of vary- launched to preserve and spread “traditional culture ing lengths, theoretical articles and essays on the and folklore”, i.e., to rescue intangible culture from nature of tradition, and on the viability of the oblivion, and to try to pass on traditional handicraft Bartókian model of the preservation of culture. skills and folk wisdom. Cultural policymakers (Béla Bartók’s idea was to preserve folk culture by throughout the world have finally realized that the incorporating elements of it into the classical cul- spiritual and oral parts of our cultures are a great ture of the twentieth century). We will feature a reg- deal more vulnerable than stones and objects and ular column with reports on projects at the major that, therefore, intellectual riches call for special workshops of traditional culture. Book reviews, as protection in our rapidly globalizing world. well as reviews of current exhibitions, films, videos, Hungarian Heritage, the new journal launched by and sound recordings will constitute a part of every the European Folklore Institute, is a part of this pro- issue, as will reports on the latest folk dance and gram. It publishes original articles on folk literature, music festivals, folk dance and music camps, and narratives, and legends, folk music and folk dance folk craft fairs. The journal will also provide practi- (with special focus on the Hungarian táncház [dance cal and up-to-date information on forthcoming hall] movement), and also looks at mythology, folk events (festivals, fairs, exhibitions, etc.), and on new rituals, customs, and games, as well as traditional audio releases. Finally, we plan to include a photo arts, crafts, and architecture. In other words, our essay in every issue by way of the visual representa- notion of heritage comprehends the most diverse tion of our heritage. forms of traditional artistic self-expression, individ- With such a variety of topics to choose from, the ual and collective alike, and always involves a value Editorial Board is hard put to present a balanced judgement. In this sense, heritage is those “objects” picture of this rich heritage, given its limited finan- 7 Editorial Preface cial resources. We consider it our duty to not only give cultural homogeneity, but the full blossoming of a faithful accounting of present-day conditions, but each culture in its individual colors. And to appre- also to trace their historical roots, and chart the path ciate and safeguard one’s traditions is to preserve that has led to the transformation of our traditions. one’s cultural

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