Contemporary Carpatho-Rusyn Music in Ethnic and Linguistic Revitalization Movement

Result code in IS VaVaI

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Result on the web

<a href="https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7Ic1zcztJ5" target="_blank" >https://verso.is.cuni.cz/pub/verso.fpl?fname=obd_publikace_handle&handle=7Ic1zcztJ5</a>

DOI - Digital Object Identifier

<a href="http://dx.doi.org/10.31577/EtnoRozpra.2025.32.2.04" target="_blank" >10.31577/EtnoRozpra.2025.32.2.04</a>

Result language

angličtina

Original language name

Contemporary Carpatho-Rusyn Music in Ethnic and Linguistic Revitalization Movement

Original language description

Drawing on the concepts of linguistic and musical anthropology, this article explores the role of contemporary music production in the ethnolinguistic revitalization of the Carpatho-Rusyn mi-nority in Slovakia. The study aims to clarify and analyse how modern musical genres and emerg-ing hybrid genres contribute to the strengthening of the Carpatho-Rusyn language and ethnic identity in the context of ongoing language shift and assimilation. The research employs a quali-tative methodology, combining ethnographic fieldwork in northeastern Slovakia with in-depth interviews of musicians, cultural organizers, and members of the Carpatho-Rusyn community, as well as textual and audiovisual analysis of music-related content. The findings suggest that modern musical forms play a significant role in shaping the linguistic and cultural-musical world of Carpatho-Rusyns. Artists operating in this sphere often intentionally use the Carpatho-Rusyn language as a marker of ethnic belonging, creative authorship, and resistance to dominant cul-tural norms. Music production targeting younger audiences situates the language within socially attractive, contemporary frameworks, thereby enhancing its symbolic and communicative pres-tige and legitimizing its use beyond traditional domains. Ultimately, music emerges not only as a cultural symbol, but as an active agent in processes of identity negotiation and ethnolinguistic revitalization. It becomes a dynamic space where belonging is performed, and where traditionand innovation coexist through hybrid expression.

Czech name

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Czech description

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Type

J_ost - Miscellaneous article in a specialist periodical

CEP classification

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OECD FORD branch

50404 - Anthropology, ethnology

Project

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Continuities

S - Specificky vyzkum na vysokych skolach

Publication year

2025

Confidentiality

S - Úplné a pravdivé údaje o projektu nepodléhají ochraně podle zvláštních právních předpisů

Name of the periodical

Etnologické rozpravy / Ethnological Papers

ISSN

1335-5074

e-ISSN

2729-9759

Volume of the periodical

32

Issue of the periodical within the volume

2

Country of publishing house

SK - SLOVAKIA

Number of pages

16

Pages from-to

56-71

UT code for WoS article

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EID of the result in the Scopus database

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