Ethnomuse: Archiving folk music and dance culture (original) (raw)
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2013
Records of the diverse intangible cultural heritage of the Republic of Croatia are kept in numerous archives and collections. The largest and the most systematic archive of this heritage is situated within the Institute of Ethnology and Folklore Research (IEF) in Zagreb, which has been, since its founding in 1948, steadily increasing its collections of manuscripts and photo, video and audio recordings of the traditional culture of Croats at home, other peoples living in Croatia and of Croats abroad. In keeping with the contemporary trend of opening archives to the public and facilitating access to its archived materials, the IEF is preparing and adapting its archive of intangible cultural heritage for publishing on the Internet. The Institute is working on two large projects in parallel to achieve this goal – the project of digitisation of its archived material and the project of creating a digital repository. Planning and implementing of the repository is conducted within the Insti...
Journal of Cultural Heritage, 2013
ABSTRACT The current work focuses on the implementation of audiovisual production technologies for preservation and demonstration of local tradition and Cultural Heritage (CH). A methodological framework is proposed for the production, digitization, authoring and presentation of audiovisual (AV) content, related to traditional music and dances. The production chain involves content restoration, description and management of archived material, direction of documentary biographies, demonstration of folk customs and filming of chore-theatrical acts, aiming at creating historical, informative and educational video entities. User-friendly interactive environments are employed by means of media browsing menus and multilingual narration, utilizing new AV authoring. The proposed methodology has been implemented on the occasion of a folk-heritage multilingual DVD video production and its enhanced Web-TV edition1. The paper brings forward novel theoretical, technical and mostly methodological guidelines in preserving and disseminating CH, using state of the art AV production technologies.
The paper presents the main aspects of an ongoing project aimed at the development of technologies for digitization of Bulgarian folk music and building a heterogeneous digital library with Bulgarian folk songs presented with their music, notes and text. The digitization of sound recordings and notations of folk music will facilitate the access to them, will provide their preservation in another quality and will present the opportunity for these recordings and notations to be used by a greater number of users through web-based access. The digital library will provide both digital preservation of the sound recordings and notations of Bulgarian folk songs and a possibility for new interpretations of the archaic Bulgarian folklore heritage. Information technologies for presentation of Bulgarian folk songs is an interdisciplinary project, which imposes a specific research approach, combining the plurality and dialogue of a multitude of viewpoints, positions and perspectives.
DIGITIZATION OF BULGARIAN FOLK SONGS WITH MUSIC, NOTES AND TEXT The Project
2011
A digitization project for Bulgarian folk songs Information technologies for presentation of Bulgarian folk songs with music, notes and text in a digital library was started last year, joining the efforts of various experts from three institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia University and New Bulgarian University. The research that is carried out under this project is aimed at the development of a technology and corresponding supporting software tools for the creation and usage of heterogeneous institutional digital libraries. The tools will satisfy the needs of the researchers for information technologies in the fields of ethnology, ethnomusicology and folkloristic. In the project frame a technological environment for digitization of notations is created, specially adapted for Bulgarian folk songs. Now a database with notes, lyrics and music is under development. An initial digitization and preservation of the Bulgarian cultural heritage will be carried out by means ...
Digitization of Bulgarian folk songs with music, notes and text
2010
A digitization project for Bulgarian folk songs Information technologies for presentation of Bulgarian folk songs with music, notes and text in a digital library has been started last year, joining the efforts of various experts from three institutes of the Bulgarian Academy of Sciences, Sofia University and New Bulgarian University. The research that is carried out under this project aims at the development of a technology and corresponding supporting software tools for the creation and usage of heterogeneous institutional digital libraries. The tools will satisfy the needs of the researchers for information technologies in the fields of ethnology, ethnomusicology and folkloristic. In the project frame a technological environment for digitization of notations is created, specially adapted for Bulgarian folk songs. Now a database with notes, lyrics and music is under development. An initial digitization and preservation of the Bulgarian cultural heritage will be carried out by means...
Culturologica Slovaca, 2021
The vast amount of folk songs that were gradually amassed in published song collections through intensive collecting and editing activities throughout the 19th and 20th centuries represents a rich and precious material that is useful in present-day artistic and educational contexts. Yet for various reasons, it is often inaccessible to those who work with folk song for hobbyist-artistic purposes, in the folklore revival movement, or in education. In the last two decades, websites have been created in Slovakia that present folk songs in various ways: either in the form of a database of song lyrics, or complete text-melodic transcriptions supplemented by sound samples. In 2016, a project called Ľudo Slovenský – Ľudové piesne [Ľudo Slovenský – Folk Songs] was initiated, which approached the digitization and public dissemination of folk songs in an unusual and interesting way. This paper presents the genesis of the project and the context in which it was created, the theoretical and methodological aspects of the process of digitizing songs and publishing them on the Internet. Its main purpose is to digitize and interactively mediate the content of one of the most important and extensive song collections in Slovakia – Slovenské spevy [Slovak songs].
THE PRODUCTION AND ARCHIVING OF THE EDUCATIONAL AUDIOVISUAL ETHNOGRAPHIC DANCE RECORDINGS
The traditional dance culture in Turkey has an extensive impact on socio-cultural communication and also a political emphasis on national unity or ethnic differences. Thus, since its foundation, the Turkish Republic has sustained, protected and archived this as " intangible cultural heritage " supported by institutional studies. While the active function of dance in the traditional environment was protected through this process, urbanization in the second half of the 20th century meant that folk dances were highly demanded as a type of social activity in every level of education in state institutions or social organizations. The first Folk Dances Department was founded in Istanbul Technical University State Conservatory of Turkish Music in 1984 in order to meet these demands on a scientific level. The objective of the Turkish Folk Dances Departments is to provide the transmission of the traditional dances in the best way. In this direction, the aim is to train artists, researchers and educators, who are well-accomplished in traditional dance, within the framework of the educational programmes that are planned in the light of modern dance theories. The creation and presentation conditions of the audiovisual ethnographic dance recordings made by the technological opportunities are analysed with their historical process. The use of audiovisual materials in folk dance education and staging is handled with its contemporary dimensions via the example of the Turkish Folk Dances Department, Ege University State Conservatory founded in 1989. The historical perspective of the audiovisual ethnographic dance recordings in parallel with the economic and political development of Turkish folk dances since the Republican era is analysed under this title. The tendencies and differences in the collecting, archiving and editing stages of the audiovisual ethnographic dance recordings that arose with the institutionalization of Turkish Folk Dances Departments as independent branches of art is also discussed.
Digital Archive and Multimedia Library for Bulgarian Traditional Culture and Folklore
1993
In this paper we present investigation of methods and techniques for digitization and security in digital folklore archive-an archive that consists of unique folklore artifacts stored and annotated in the National center for non-material cultural heritage, Institute of Folklore, Bulgarian Academy of Sciences. The research is separated in several basic aspects. First we investigate techniques for digitization of different multimedia types-text, images, audio and video. We use this research to selected collections of artifacts. Second we describe several methods applied for securing the intellectual property and authors' rights. These include digital watermarking and error-correcting codes. The paper also presents the functional specification, implementation and testing procedures of the Bulgarian folklore digital library, where the digital folklore archive is kept.
[with Ana Vukmanović] Digitising Serbian Folklore: What has Been Done and What is to Be Done
Zeitschrift für Balkanologie , 2020
This paper first provides a brief overview of the main and best-known South Slavic digital folklore and ethnographic databases, libraries, archives and repositories. Its main part is focused on Serbia. First of all, we describe the specialised folklore databases and editions designed by the folklore scholar Mirjana Detelić and a group of authors, which we are confident, can serve as a model beyond Serbia. Then, we present the digitisation of folklore and ethnographic studies carried out by the main state libraries, scientific, educational and cultural institutions, regional libraries and museums. We also offer a brief description of the most important volunteer initiatives in folklore digitisation, and provide information on the digitisation of South Slavic folklore which is taking place outside the region. Finally, we put forward some suggestions as to what needs to be done in the digitisation of Serbian folklore.
Musicological Annual, 2016
With this issue of the Musicological Annual, we celebrate the 70th anniversary of the International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM, founded in 1947 in London) as well as the 20th anniversary of the Cultural and Ethnomusicological Society Folk Slovenia (founded in 1996 in Piran). At the time of publishing of the current issue, the headquarters of both societies are located at the Department of Musicology, Faculty of Arts of the University of Ljubljana. ICTM is the leading international association of ethnomusicologists and has its office in Ljubljana from 2011 until 2017, while CES Folk Slovenia is a professional Slovenian association as well as the national branch of the ICTM. During the aforementioned period, I – the guest editor of this Musicological Annual – am serving as Secretary General of ICTM and President of CES Folk Slovenia.