Ritualising the narrative song : The Godfather’s song

Fofor Mihai: Ritualising the narrative song : The Godfather’s song. In: Folk ballads, ethics, moral issues : [a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Néprajzi Intézete és az Európai Folklór Intézet által Budapesten, 2001. ápr. 21-23. között rendezett konferencia anyaga], (10). pp. 199-210. (2002)

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Abstract

One of the most controversial areas of folkloristic studies are those concerning the theories on the genesis of genres, on the mobility and variability of the folkloric “text”, on the process of its transition from one genre to another. There are still a lot of unanswered questions and unproved hypotheses concerning these intimate mechanisms of a mentality system of a certain social group, a mechanism that generates the re-functionaliztion of a folkloric “text” according to specific needs and specific contexts. For beyond the simultaneous presence of the same motifs and themes in genres with different functionality we have to take into consideration the case of those “texts” that due to the change of the register, in Hyme’s sense, in which the transaction of meaning takes place, of their mode of performance and even of the arena of their performance, are being refunctionalised into another folkloric genre. Starting from the special case of the Romanian narrative song Letin bogát (The Rich Latin) also known as Cäntecul Nasului (The Godfather’s Song) we shall try to analyse the ways a narrative song has been ritualised by means of its performance as a distinct sequence of the wedding ritual, developing in time into a sort of ritual song. More than that we shall also focus on the reverse process nowadays that of another semantic readaptation of the song due to the de-sacralisation of the wedding ritual and its transformation into a spectacular ceremony.

Item Type: Book Section
Journal or Publication Title: Folk ballads, ethics, moral issues : [a Magyar Tudományos Akadémia Néprajzi Intézete és az Európai Folklór Intézet által Budapesten, 2001. ápr. 21-23. között rendezett konferencia anyaga]
Date: 2002
Volume: 10
ISSN: 1419-1288
ISBN: 963 05 7989 8
Page Range: pp. 199-210
Series Name: Szegedi vallási néprajzi könyvtár
Language: English
Event Title: International Ballad Conference (31.) (2001) (Budapest)
Related URLs: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/70234/
Uncontrolled Keywords: Népballada
Additional Information: Bibliogr.: 210. p. ; összefoglalás angol nyelven
Subjects: 05. Social sciences
05. Social sciences > 05.04. Sociology
Date Deposited: 2020. Sep. 17. 09:57
Last Modified: 2022. Feb. 01. 15:50
URI: http://acta.bibl.u-szeged.hu/id/eprint/70295

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