Nordic Folk Dances as Imaginary Geographies

2012 ◽  
Vol 2012 ◽  
pp. 76-80
Author(s):  
Petri Hoppu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
Water Systems ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
Artistic Creativity ◽  
Nordic Region ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Imaginative Geographies ◽  
The 1960S

Geography is a feature that typically belongs to the realm of folk dance. Folk dances are often defined as belonging to a certain region, and it is seldom they are considered a result of artistic creativity. In the Nordic countries, folk dancers have co-operated intensively since the early twentieth century, sharing dances with each other. In this presentation, I am arguing that this co-operation has created imaginative geographies of the Nordic region, filled not with landscapes, terrains, or water systems, but with movements, holds, and music. As an example, I will present two Nordic folk dance books from the 1960s. In these books, dances are attached to certain geographical areas, which is not merely contextual information but also entails stylistic features of a specific dance. Most dances are connected to a certain parish, and in some cases the province is mentioned, as well. In practice, for most folk dancers, the names of the areas do not have much significance as material domain, but they are elements of a map of a danced region, and as such the dances are a part of imaginative geographies, performed spaces. Following the British geographer Derek Gregory, I see folk dances as a continuation of performances that necessarily creates novelty, which allows one to experience spaces differently. The books are danced atlases presenting the Nordic region as a series of performed spaces. They address how the Nordic region has been represented in a danced form, emphasizing affiliation and unity, as well as distinction and disjointedness.

The Polska: Featuring Swedish in Finland

2014 ◽  
Vol 2014 ◽  
pp. 99-105
Author(s):  
Petri Hoppu
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Folk Dance ◽  
Dance Culture ◽  
Ethnographic Fieldwork ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Dance Groups ◽  
Special Case

The paper examines the Swedish polska as a special case of movementscape in Finnish folk dance. The research is based on ethnographic fieldwork among Finnish folk dancers in 2013. Since the 1970s, the polska has been popular in Swedish folk dance, and this versatile dance form can be seen as emblematic to Swedish folk dance culture. During the last 30 years, Finnish folk dance groups have also eagerly adopted it: not only the dance itself, but a whole new style and embodiment of dancing with improvisation as an important element. Although there have been vernacular polska forms in Finland, as well, and folk dancers have danced them for decades, they have not been able to reach any higher status. Although Finnish folk dancers have adopted dances from other Nordic countries since the early twentieth century, the popularity of Swedish polska exceeds that of any earlier Nordic innovations in Finland.

Border Blurs

2019 ◽  
Author(s):  
Greg Thomas
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Social Reconstruction ◽  
Scottish Literature ◽  
Concrete Poetry ◽  
Artistic Style ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Counter Culture ◽  
The Sixties ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Relationship

This book presents the first in-depth account of the relationship between English and Scottish poets and the international concrete poetry movement of the 1950s-70s. Concrete poetry was a literary and artistic style which reactivated early-twentieth-century modernist impulses towards the merging of artistic media while simultaneously speaking to a gamut of contemporary contexts, from post-1945 social reconstruction to cybernetics, mass media, and the sixties counter-culture. The terms of its development in England and Scotland also suggest new ways of mapping ongoing complexities in the relationship between those two national cultures, and of tracing broader sociological and cultural trends in Britain during the 1960s-70s. Focusing especially on the work of Ian Hamilton Finlay, Edwin Morgan, Dom Sylvester Houédard, and Bob Cobbing, Border Blurs is based on new and extensive archival and primary research. It fills a gap in contemporary understandings of a significant literary and artistic genre which has been largely overlooked by literary critics. It also sheds new light on the development of British and Scottish literature during the late twentieth century, on the emergence of intermedia art, and on the development of modernism beyond its early-twentieth-century, urban Western networks.

The three waves of Arctic urbanisation. Drivers, evolutions, prospects

Polar Record ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 55 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-12 ◽  
Author(s):  
Marlene Laruelle
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Sixteenth Century ◽  
Human Development ◽  
Public Services ◽  
The Arctic ◽  
Human Development Report ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
Near Future

AbstractThe 2014 Arctic Human Development Report identified “Arctic settlements, cities, and communities” as one of the main gaps in knowledge of the region. This article looks at circumpolar urbanisation trends. It dissociates three historical waves of Arctic urbanisation: from the sixteenth century to the early twentieth century (the “colonial” wave), from the 1920s to the 1980s in the specific case of the Soviet urbanisation of the Arctic (the “Soviet” wave), and from the 1960s−70s to the present as a circumpolar trend (the “globalized” wave). It then discusses the three drivers of the latest urbanisation wave (resources, militarisation, and public services) and the prospects for Arctic cities’ sustainability in the near future.

Socialist Pluralism and Pluralist Socialism

1977 ◽  
Vol 25 (4) ◽  
pp. 474-490 ◽  
Author(s):  
F. M. Barnard ◽  
R. A. Vernon
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political Parties ◽  
The State ◽  
English School ◽  
Societal Values ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The 1960S

The English school of ‘socialist pluralists' of the early twentieth century pictured socialism as an order in which maximum autonomy of social and economic functions coexisted with a minimum of political functions. The ‘pluralist socialists' among the Czech reformers of the 1960s, by contrast, insisted that such autonomy can be realised and sustained only in conjunction with effective political modalities. The pluralization of socialist regimes entailed for them, therefore, not ‘the withering away of the state’ but its invigoration as a space for contesting general ends. Such contestation was envisaged principally in terms of competition between political parties which could give expression to ideological differentiation even within the confines of socialist belief, the implication being that agreement on fundamental societal values does not pre-empt diversity over political ends.

scholarly journals Scaramouche, Scaramouche: Sibelius on Stage

2020 ◽  
Vol 145 (2) ◽  
pp. 417-456
Author(s):  
LEAH BROAD
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Nordic Countries ◽  
Musical Language ◽  
Concert Hall ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Opera House ◽  
Theatrical Music

AbstractSibelius’s only balletic pantomime, Scaramouche, composed in 1913, remains one of his least-known works, even though it is one of his longest dramatic scores and belongs to his period of compositional re-evaluation. This article explores the pantomime in the context of its first production, performed in 1922 in Denmark and 1924 in Sweden. It argues that the pantomime’s reception both illuminates the importance of dance as a formative ‘modern’ genre within the Nordic countries during this period, and demonstrates that the score is defined by stylistic plurality, which was key to its theatrical success. The article calls for increased musicological attention to Nordic theatrical music, a genre that was extremely popular among early twentieth-century Nordic composers. It provided musicians with musical spaces that were more liberating than the concert hall or the opera house for the purposes of cultivating their musical language.

scholarly journals Images of an illness : a case study of Albert R. Stone's tuberculosis photographs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasha Lin Caswell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tuberculosis Treatment ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Treatment Facilities ◽  
Made In

This master's thesis is a case study of sixteen black-and-white photographs of tuberculosis treatment facilities in Rochester, N.Y., by local photographer Albert R. Stone. They appeared in the Rochester Herald in as two photo essays, one in 1909 and the other in 1923. The aim of my research was to provide contextual information about Albert Stone and the Rochester Herald, tuberculosis and its treatment, and how the disease was portrayed photographically, and ultimately, to determine whether Stone's photographs were typical of tuberculosis-related images. I examined them in the context of other sanatorium images and based on statements about the conventions of sanatorium photographs made by Daniel M. Fox and Christopher Lawrence in Photographing Medicine: Images and Power in Britain and America Since 1840, and concluded that they were representative of photographs of sanatoriums made in the early twentieth century.

scholarly journals Images of an illness : a case study of Albert R. Stone's tuberculosis photographs

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Tasha Lin Caswell
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Contextual Information ◽  
The Other ◽  
Tuberculosis Treatment ◽  
Black And White ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
Master's Thesis ◽  
Treatment Facilities ◽  
Made In

This master's thesis is a case study of sixteen black-and-white photographs of tuberculosis treatment facilities in Rochester, N.Y., by local photographer Albert R. Stone. They appeared in the Rochester Herald in as two photo essays, one in 1909 and the other in 1923. The aim of my research was to provide contextual information about Albert Stone and the Rochester Herald, tuberculosis and its treatment, and how the disease was portrayed photographically, and ultimately, to determine whether Stone's photographs were typical of tuberculosis-related images. I examined them in the context of other sanatorium images and based on statements about the conventions of sanatorium photographs made by Daniel M. Fox and Christopher Lawrence in Photographing Medicine: Images and Power in Britain and America Since 1840, and concluded that they were representative of photographs of sanatoriums made in the early twentieth century.

Tocqueville and Marx: Not opposites

2014 ◽  
Vol 35 (2) ◽  
pp. 167-196
Author(s):  
Roger Boesche
Keyword(s):  
Twentieth Century ◽  
Political System ◽  
Middle Way ◽  
Early Twentieth Century ◽  
The 1960S ◽  
The Right

For more than half a century, analysts have presented Tocqueville as a counterpoise to Marx. J.-P. Mayer, who helped reintroduce Tocqueville after considerable neglect in the early twentieth century, pictured Tocqueville as a “Prophet of the Mass Age,” a prophet having found a middle way between the twin dangers of Marxism on the left and Fascism on the right. In the 1960s it was fashionable to declare that Tocqueville defended a “pluralistic political system” as an alternative to Marxist-Leninist tyrannies.

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