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Bertsolaritza : skrytý hlas lidu?: básnická improvizace v Baskicku

- Author(s)
- Chochola, Martin
- Title
- Bertsolaritza : skrytý hlas lidu?: básnická improvizace v Baskicku
- In
- AntropoWebzin, 1, 2012, 15-20
- Subjects
- Bertsolaritza ; Basque Country
- Content
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Testu osoa
- Type of material
- Article
- ISBN / ISSN
- 1801-8807
This paper aims to picture the art of Basque poetic improvization - Bertsolaritza - as a specific social and cultural phenomenon and a possible field for the research on Basque language or cultural revitalization a nationalism. The Basque bertsolaritza is defined as an art of specific form and rules, a brief note about its development in the twentieth century is made, meanwhile a short introduction in the context of basque nationalism, cultural revitalization and ethnicity is carried out. This oral tradition is understood as both the cultural and political issue. A short conclusion and a note about the author's plan for his thesis is also included. The paper is a result of a preliminary field research that has been done in the period of July-August 2011 in the region of Gipuzkoa (Euskadi - Basque Country / Spain) and the analysis of literature related to the topic.