Karikázó, 1980. július - 1981. április (6. évfolyam, 1-4. szám)

1980-07-01 / 1. szám

A Symposium HUNGARIAN Folk Cultures At Duquesne University Between April 14-19, 1980, DUQUESNE UNIVER - SITY TAMBURITZANS INSTITUTE OF FOLK ARTS in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania organized a Hungarian Cultural Week. Within the framework of this event, examples of Hungarian folk art, paintings by famous Hungarian fine artists were exhibited, as well as a sizable collection of books and phonograph records were put on display and a two days' SYMPOSIUM! ON HUNGARIAN FOLK CULTURES was conducted. Ten lectures were presented on this subject mat­ter: Prof.ILDIKÓ KRIZA (Budapest) gave a com­prehensive view of the historical stratas of Hungarian folk ant, revealing the historic stylistical marks of Hungarian decorative elements and illustrating the u­­nique characteristics of Hungarian folk art with vis­ual material. Prof. TEKLA DÖMÖTÖR (Budapest)lectured about Hungarian folk customs in general^upjlemented by a slide presentation of her own field work. Prof. LINDA DEGH of Indiana University lead­ing expert on the representative genre of oral tradi­tions: folk tales, spoke about the transformations of magic elements in folk tales. MICHAEL SOZAN (Slippery Rock College)and MARIDA HOLLOS dealt, giving much food to further thought, with the cultural anthropological analyzation of present-day Hungarian village life. BELA MÁDAY (Washington, D.C.) out­lined the differences between Hungarian ethnography and American anthropology and some of the outstand­ing achievements in these areas of science. 'The history of American-Hungarian ethnographical research" was the subject of two lectures. One by Prof. STEPHEN VÁRDY and Prof. ÁGNES YARDY (Pittsburgh), giving detailed information on related published material, and the other by Prof ÁGOSTON MOLNÁR , Director of the Hungarian Studies Foundation in New Brunswick, NJ. He laid be­fore the audience the achievements and problems of his organization. The well organized Symposium did not lack in the subject matter of folk music and folk dance either. BENJAMIN SUC HOFF (Trus tee of the Béla Bar­tók Estate) spoke about the sources in the musical works of Bartók, displaying the context in the com­poser's adaptation of folk music elements in his written music and demonstrating it with well-selec­ted musical examples. The two-days' session was brought to an end by KÁLMÁN and JUDITH MAGYAR'S scholar­ly presentation on Hungarian Folk Dancing in Hunga­ry and in America. They knowledgeably outlined Hun­garian folk dance types and dialects, linking demon­strative dancing with their oral presentation. Their evening folk dance workshops closely related to their afternoon presentation, was attended by members of the local Hungarian dance groups: Hungarian Eth­nic Group of Western Pennsylvania and Paprikás Group, students of Duquesne Univer­sity and by participants of the Symposium. Duriimg the Hungarian Cultural Week, twelve,most­ly ethnographical films were shown and the success­ful professional program was favourably supplemen­ted by other social, lunch and dinner events, attended by the Rector of Duquesne Uni versity,representatives of the Hungarian Embassy, the Mayor of Pittsburgh, members of the William Penn Association (who dona­ted a sizable sum of money to make this event pos­sible). All these are hoped to be instrumental in maintaining or establishing a constructive relation­ship and communication between American-Hungarian organizations and professional institutions in the field of ethnography. WALTER KOLAR, Director of DUTIFA, collaborating with Prof. Stephen Várdi and Visiting Professor Ildikó Kriza-Horváth from Hungary, has organized a successful, fruitful cultur­al event, which is hoped to be examplary to other in­stitutions and organizations of learning.® Prof. Ildikó Kriza-Horváth (Translated by Judith Magyar) E\ v>

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