- [UNTITLED]
- List of Contributors
- About the Companion Website
- An Introduction to Music Revival as Concept, Cultural Process, and Medium of Change
- Traditional Music, Heritage Music
- An Expanded Theory for Revivals as Cosmopolitan Participatory Music Making
- Antiquarian Nostalgia and the Institutionalization of Early Music
- A Folklorist’s Exploration of the Revival Metaphor
- A Participant- Documentarian in the American Instrumental Folk Music Revival
- Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Music Revival, Ca Trù Ontologies, and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam
- The Hungarian Dance House Movement and Revival of Transylvanian String Band Music
- National Purity and PostColonial Hybridity in India’s Kathak Dance Revival
- Choreographic Revival, Elite Nationalism, and Postcolonial Appropriation in Senegal
- Revived Musical Practices within Uzbekistan’s Evolving National Project
- Two Revivalist Moments in Iranian Classical Music
- Reclaiming Choctaw and Chickasaw Cultural Identity through Music Revival
- Revivalist Articulations of Traditional Music in War and Postwar Croatia
- Cultural Rescue and Musical Revival among the Nicaraguan Garifuna
- Toward a Methodology for Research into the Revival of Musical Life after War, Natural Disaster, Bans on All Music, or Neglect
- Innovation and Cultural Activism through the Reimagined Pasts of Finnish Music Revivals
- Revival Currents and Innovation on the Path from Protest Bossa to Tropicália
- Bending or Breaking the Native American Flute Tradition?
- Toward an Application of Globalization Paradigms to Modern Folk Music Revivals
- Contemporary English Folk Music and the Folk Industry
- Ivana Kupala (St. John’s Eve) Revivals as Metaphors of Sexual Morality, Fertility, and Contemporary Ukrainian Femininity
- Trailing Images and Culture Branding in Post-Renaissance Hawai‘i
- Grassroots Revitalization of North American and Western European Instrumental Music Traditions from Fiddlers Associations to Cyberspace
- Georgian Polyphony and its Journeys from National Revival to Global Heritage
- Irish Music Revivals Through Generations of Diaspora
- Reviving the Reluctant Art of Iranian Dance in Iran and in the American Diaspora
- Musical Remembrance, Exile, and the Remaking of South African Jazz (1960–1979)
- Re-Flections
- Index
Abstract and Keywords
This article has been commissioned as part of the forthcoming Oxford Handbook of Music Revival edited by Caroline Bithell and Juniper Hill. This essay illustrates how revival movements are employed as a form of cultural activism. Selectively drawing on and reimagining historical traditions, musicians and scholars use the past to inspire and justify innovations in the present. Musical and sociocultural changes are legitimized through the invocation of authenticity, which is based on idealized criteria that are redefined for each new revival cause. Three case studies are presented from Finnish folk music. In the first, Romantic nationalists use narrative folk songs, compiled in the national epic the Kalevala, to serve nation-building agendas. In the second, amateur instrumental pelimanni music is used to rejuvenate culturally and economically depressed rural areas and to build social cohesion. In the third, professional musicians from the Sibelius Academy draw on creative processes of ancient music (e.g., oral composition and improvisation) to foster greater personal expression, artistic freedom, and avant-garde experimentalism. The postrevival impacts and legacies of these movements are discussed.
Keywords: music revival, authenticity, innovation, improvisation, creativity, Romantic nationalism, Finnish folk music, Kalevala, music academies, avant-garde
Juniper Hill, Marie Curie Intra-European Research Fellow, Faculty of Music, University of Cambridge, UK, and Lecturer, School of Music and Theater, University College Cork, Ireland
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- [UNTITLED]
- List of Contributors
- About the Companion Website
- An Introduction to Music Revival as Concept, Cultural Process, and Medium of Change
- Traditional Music, Heritage Music
- An Expanded Theory for Revivals as Cosmopolitan Participatory Music Making
- Antiquarian Nostalgia and the Institutionalization of Early Music
- A Folklorist’s Exploration of the Revival Metaphor
- A Participant- Documentarian in the American Instrumental Folk Music Revival
- Reviving Korean Identity through Intangible Cultural Heritage
- Music Revival, Ca Trù Ontologies, and Intangible Cultural Heritage in Vietnam
- The Hungarian Dance House Movement and Revival of Transylvanian String Band Music
- National Purity and PostColonial Hybridity in India’s Kathak Dance Revival
- Choreographic Revival, Elite Nationalism, and Postcolonial Appropriation in Senegal
- Revived Musical Practices within Uzbekistan’s Evolving National Project
- Two Revivalist Moments in Iranian Classical Music
- Reclaiming Choctaw and Chickasaw Cultural Identity through Music Revival
- Revivalist Articulations of Traditional Music in War and Postwar Croatia
- Cultural Rescue and Musical Revival among the Nicaraguan Garifuna
- Toward a Methodology for Research into the Revival of Musical Life after War, Natural Disaster, Bans on All Music, or Neglect
- Innovation and Cultural Activism through the Reimagined Pasts of Finnish Music Revivals
- Revival Currents and Innovation on the Path from Protest Bossa to Tropicália
- Bending or Breaking the Native American Flute Tradition?
- Toward an Application of Globalization Paradigms to Modern Folk Music Revivals
- Contemporary English Folk Music and the Folk Industry
- Ivana Kupala (St. John’s Eve) Revivals as Metaphors of Sexual Morality, Fertility, and Contemporary Ukrainian Femininity
- Trailing Images and Culture Branding in Post-Renaissance Hawai‘i
- Grassroots Revitalization of North American and Western European Instrumental Music Traditions from Fiddlers Associations to Cyberspace
- Georgian Polyphony and its Journeys from National Revival to Global Heritage
- Irish Music Revivals Through Generations of Diaspora
- Reviving the Reluctant Art of Iranian Dance in Iran and in the American Diaspora
- Musical Remembrance, Exile, and the Remaking of South African Jazz (1960–1979)
- Re-Flections
- Index
