The bequest of Hungarian folklorist and folk dance researcher György Martin is currently held at the Hungarian Heritage House (HHH), at its Folklore Documentation Library and Archives from 1999. The collection offers insights into the private practices of alternative culture during the Kádár era in Hungary. The library at the HHH based on Martin’s bequest contains approximately 10,000 books and periodicals. The library adheres to Martin’s… прочети повече
The bequest of Hungarian folklorist and folk dance researcher György Martin is currently held at the Hungarian Heritage House (HHH), at its Folklore Documentation Library and Archives from 1999. The collection offers insights into the private practices of alternative culture during the Kádár era in Hungary. The library at the HHH based on Martin’s bequest contains approximately 10,000 books and periodicals. The library adheres to Martin’s original systematic concept of collection, so the documents are arranged according to theme.
The collection includes György Martin’s correspondence with Communist Party officials, so it reflects the dynamics of an emerging non-conformist intellectual agenda between private practices and politically enforced limits on expression. The collection includes many letters written to Martin’s friends and colleagues in Hungary and abroad. Martin was also keen on documenting his collecting work in a systematic way. The documents about his trips abroad, festivals, and conferences attended offer an overview of the life of a researcher under communism in Hungary.
In his work, Martin’s central method was comparative folk dance research. His findings and ideas became the basis of further academic research on folk dance. Martin took part in the popular Hungarian folklore revival movements of the 1970s. Thanks in part to his professional and scientific collections, the folk dance house movement got off to a promising start. He contributed to the organization of the first dance house in 1972. He brought folk dance house traditions of the Székely Land and the city of Sic or Szék, a largely Hungarian-speaking city in Transylvania, to Budapest. Martin travelled to Romania as frequently as he could, and he maintained connections with other people who supported folk dance research there. Martin also offered a film he made on folk dance to the participants of the dance house movement. He shot a series of folk dance films. His most famous dancer was István Mátyás, who went by the nickname “Mundruc.”
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