Claiming Folklore: Politiken und Praktiken von Volksmusik im Schweizer Fernsehen

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Project-website for «Claiming Folklore: Politiken und Praktiken von Volksmusik im Schweizer Fernsehen (1960er–1990er Jahre)» of the Department of Social Anthropology and Cultural Studies (ISEK) at University of Zurich. The cultural study project researches tradition in modern channels. It asks about attributions and claims of folk culture (folklore) in relation to folk music programs on Swiss television. The focus is on the specific appropriations and evaluations by actors with different connections – the appropriation of folk music. It explores local sound cultures on television from the 1960s to the 1990s in comparison with alternative readings and movements of the same period and looks for new insights into identity political access to and reflections on folk music, its social functions and effects.

Follow-up project from 2020s’ online exhibition Fernsehfolklore, using it’s blue-tone also this time as main colour. At the beginning of the page, snippets of the studied TV-show are shown in an UI that is inspired by TV- and map aesthetics. Dark turquoise is as dark it does get.

Concept with intercom Verlag (Tuggener Christina and Niki Rhyner)
Development: Davide Giorgetta
Map realized by the GIS Hub, DSI Lab University of Zurich
Project team: Alexandra Neukomm, Inken Blum, Sabine Eggmann, Patricia Jäggi, Yvonne Meier, Bernhard Tschofen
Project Partner: SRF Archiv
Funded by the Swiss Nation Science Foundation (SNF)
Font: Alpha by Omni.type

2024