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Revival and Authenticity (searching for a lost past (what is authentic?…
Revival and Authenticity
searching for a lost past
what is authentic?
Bohlman - authentic opposed to hybridity
something to be developed, no longer authentic
accuracy vs authenticity
recreation vs revival
true to past vs connection more fluid
c.f. oral traditions
variations
just another step in the process
authenticity more than stoic foundation
timlessness, unbroken continuity
authentic if part of broken tradition?
what makes something authentic?
authentic practice
aesthetics of authenticity
Brocken 'authentic phantom'
more difficult to define
historical continuity
passed down through generations
outside [or in spite of] mainstream markets
20th c not always focused on phenomenon
performance considered
practice not enough
context required
creating authenticity
Munro - how to avoid distorting culture
preservation isn't enough
Livingston - criteria for authentic folksong
old, anonymous, oral tradition, variations, uneducated
opposition to national movements
argued workers movements inauthentic
national culture now falsified?
people's history historical, vernacular truth
authenticity in scottish revival
scottish folksong revival
mid 20th C
search for non-irish vernacular Scottish sound
authentic
new performance contexts
participants
Henderson and Lomax People's Ceilidh 1951
instrumental in the revival
Jeannie Robertson, Willie Scott
line-up represented authenticity
contrasts previous experiences
Lomax & Columbia
balance sought
authentic carriers
polished singers of folk music
commercialisation
scottish folksong revival
1970s
repertoire from traditional collections
a 'traditional' music product
adding to the instrumental revival
rediscovered authentic tunes
Jock Tamson's Bairns
Symon - the band presented as more scottish
different & aesthetically superior
c.f. folk music in edinbrugh/scotland
issues with authenticity
theories & commercialism
definitions
adaptatbility
commercialisation
selling out?
strict parameters defined by conservative revivalists
c.f. Livingston's model
commercialisation needed?
restrictions opposed to progress
'traditional' not just repertoire & participation
global markets, products, intellectual property
losing authenticity?
tradition adopted to new contexts
Bohlman - national context
loses natural beauty, sounds the same
ugly messages of nationalist ideologies