Dear Pauline Greenhill,

Would a part case-study, part reflective evaluation of a) the
international folk festival of Pécs, Hungary (last night saw the end of
the tenth) and the folk-dance movement in general in Hungary "As seen
through the eyes of an Englishman..." who is now in his twentieth year
in Hungary, and also a founder member of the Pécs Festival.

The paper would include the fact that we were officially banned from
using the word, "Festival", for small-p folk-political reasons, because
it implied that something of a competitive nature involving formal
ranking of quality was going on - which ours didn't and doesn't. It
would also compare the British folk song club and Hungarian "Dance
House" phenomena, and how, over twenty years, the respective club-goers
have changed in character and/or age.

I should be very happy to submit such a paper if you felyt it would be
relevant to your journal.

Yours,

Andy Rouse
Dept. of English Literatures and Cultures,
Janus Pannonius University
Pécs
Hungary

Pauline Greenhill wrote:
> 
>                               CALL FOR PAPERS
>                        FESTIVALS, COUNTER-FESTIVALS,
>                        ANTI-FESTIVALS, NON-FESTIVALS
> 
> 
> Submissions of papers are invited for a forthcoming special thematic
> issue of the journal
> Ethnologies, published by the Folklore Studies Association of Canada,
> on festivals, counter-
> festivals, anti-festivals, and non-festivals.  We would like to
> explore the theoretical and
> practical implications of the concept of festival, and how they may
> be worked out in events
> which critique, (en)counter, or deny festival and its manifestations.
> We will be happy to
> consider works of a primarily theoretical and/or reflective nature,
> as well as case studies of
> specific festivals, counter-festivals, anti-festivals, and
> non-festivals. We are open to works
> examining elite, popular, and vernacular events, from a variety of
> scholarly and disciplinary
> perspectives. Please consult an issue of Ethnologies (formerly
> Canadian Folklore Canadien)
> for format and style guidelines.
> 
> For questions about the appropriateness of particular issues and
> themes, please do not
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> your paper (ideally 20 typed,
> doubled-spaced pages or equivalent) by June 30, 2000 to:
> 
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>                               Women s Studies
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> Ethnologies, publi‚e
> pas l Association canadienne d ethnologie et de folklore, traitant de
> festivals, de contre-
> festivals, d anti-festivals et de non-festivals, nous vous invitons
> de soumettre vos articles.
> Nous souhaitons explorer les implications th‚oriques et pratiques du
> concept de festival et voir
> comment il peut prendre place dans les ‚vŠnements qui critiquent
> et/ou qui nient le festival et
> ses manifestations ou qui s y opposent. Nous accueillons les travaux
> … charactŠre th‚orique
> ou r‚flexif autant que les ‚tudes de cas de festivals, de
> contre-festivals, d anti-festivals et de
> non-festivals particuliers. Nous sommes ouverts aux travaux portant
> sur les ‚vŠnements
> ‚litistes, populaires ou vernaculaires et provenant de disciplines et
> de perspectives vari‚es.
> Les auteurs sont invit‚s … consulter un r‚cent num‚ro d Ethnologies
> (autrefois Canadian
> Folklore Canadien) afin de se conformer au protocole d ‚dition de la
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> article (environ 20 pages … double interligne) au plus tard le 30
> juin 2000 …:
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>                               Women s Studies
>                            University of Winnipeg
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