The “From Folklore to World Music” Colloquy takes place traditionally at the end of July, within a week-long Folk Music Holiday festival in Náměšť nad Oslavou, Czech Republic. The colloquy was launched in 2003, was repeated after a year-gap in 2005, and since 2007 it has been organized each year. Over the years, the colloquy has become a household name within the festival: not only because of its structured programme, but also for the core of its regular presenters and even for regularly attending visitors, though their number keeps increasing every year. The colloquy scope is quite wide; it invites presentations and discussion on ethnic music, traditional folk music, contemporary folk music, and world music. The speakers come both from a scholarly environment, and from music media: they are ethnologists, ethnomusicologists, ethno choreologists, musicologists, and aestheticians, as well as editors and writers, and quite often musicians as well. In fact, the meeting in one room of professionals from two opposite sides of the music field was the original intention of the colloquy founders. The theme of the colloquy differs each year (because it is related to the theme of the festival), but the attendees are united in their aim to discover all possible aspects of music “from folklore to world music”, to discuss it and to present their own special interest within the theme. Each year, presentations from the colloquy are published in a reviewed volume, which is available both in paper and electronic forms.
The 22nd international colloquy on folk music, modern folk music, ethnic music and world music
From Folklore to World Music: Purists and Innovators
Náměšť nad Oslavou (attic of the Municipal Office, Masarykovo nám. 104)
July 28 – 31, 2025
Preliminary program of the colloquy
Tuesday July 29, 2025
9.30 – 10.00 registration of participants (attic of the Municipal Office in Náměšť nad Oslavou - Masarykovo nám. 104)
10.00 – 10.20 short welcome and introduction
10.20 – 10.35 Lucie Uhlíková a Martina Pavlicová
10.40 – 10.55 Marta Ulrychová: Höritzer Passionspiele
11.00 – 11.30 coffee break
11.30 – 11.45 Bernard Garaj: Folk Musical Instruments Making in Slovakia at the Intersection of Purism and Innovation
11.50 – 12.05 Juraj Hamar: Purists, innovators and those who are outside (on the example of creation for children's folklore ensembles in Slovakia)
12.10 – 12.25 Marian Friedl: The Kuhländische Lieder project – between construction and reconstruction
12.30 – 13.45 lunch
13.45 – 14.00 Jiří Čevela: Music Playing Occasion as a Dramaturgical Determinant. Thoughts on the Repertoire of Cimbalom Music Bands in Slovácko Region
14.05 –14.20 Ondřej Daniel a Jakub Machek: Bridging Folk and Pop: Pop-folk Music Between Purism and Innovation
14.25 – 14.40 Petr Dorůžka: From Mahler's quote about the flame and ashes to Dylan's naughty trick with electric guitars
14.45 – 15.00 Sigbjørn Nedland: Innovation from tradition
15.05 - 15:20 Iivi Zájedová: Opposites and Parallels on the Example of Estonian Theatres
15.30 –16.00 discussion about lectures
Wednesday July 30, 2025
9.30 - 9.45 Jiří Plocek: Forms of innovations and innovators
9.50 – 10.05 Jiří Moravčík: The cursed and admired godfathers of British folk
10.10 – 10.25 Radvan Markus: Marsyas, Apollo and the history of Irish music
10.30 – 10.45 Milan Tesař: Current trends in Polish world music: between tradition and experiment
10.50 – 11.05 Petra Rieß: Trends in the young German folk scene
11.10 – 11.30 coffee break
11.30 –11.45 David Livingstone: The ‘Father’ of Country Music: Jimmie Rodgers as Innovator
11.50 – 12.05 Matthew Sweney: Iconoclast Elijah Wald
12.10 – 12.25 Brad Vice: Howlin Wolf, Outside the Delta
12.30 – 13.45 lunch
13.45 – 14.00 Aleš Opekar: To be or not to be a rocker - that's not the question. Filip Topol and his non-rock inspirations
14.05 –14.20 Antonín Procházka: The Drums that Talk
14.25 – 14.40 Milan Zeibert: Folkers are rockers who didn't skimp on equipment
14.45 – 16.00 meeting with festival musicians, discussion
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