Tanchaz Talk MASTER CLASS - Genesis of Hungarian Folk Music Research - March 6, 2021

With Soma Salamon, examining the beginnings of Hungarian folk music research, including:

peeling off the layers of ethnomusicology;
early researchers in the 19th century;
Béla Vikár's first-ever phonograph recording of Hungarian folk music; and
Béla Bartók’s remarkable encounter with a Székely handmaiden.

Tanchaz Talk Interview’s Master Class series episodes comprehensively explore the complex mysteries of Hungarian folk music with Soma Salamon, Lecturer at the Liszt Academy of Music in Budapest and one of Hungary’s most in-demand folk musicians and teachers.

Released on March 6, 2021.

Tanchaz Talk is the world’s only English-language show focusing primarily on Hungarian folk music. The show combines a mix of music and stories from host Kalman Magyar Jr. (Öcsi), one of North America’s leading Hungarian folk musicians.

“Tanchaz Talk Interviews” episodes feature long-form interviews with a wide range of guests. Episodes of “Tanchaz Talk Interviews” are also available in audio podcast form on all popular podcast platforms, including Apple, Google, and Spotify (please subscribe).

Kalman Magyar has been an instrumental personality in the Tanchaz movement since the 1980’s, first with the band Eletfa in New York, and now with Gyanta in Toronto.

In Hungarian, “Táncház” literally means “dance house,” and is the focal point of the Hungarian roots revival movement. The Táncház movement has been inscribed in the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (UNESCO)’s Register of Good Safeguarding Practices, as “a Hungarian model for the transmission of intangible cultural heritage.”

Visit www.tanchaz.com for more information and downloadable audio episodes.

Recommended reading mentioned in the episode:

Daniel Liptak: http://real.mtak.hu/102163/1/6.2018.5...

Katalin Paksa: https://bookline.hu/product/home.acti...

Lynn Hooker: https://www.amazon.com/Redefining-Hun...

David Schneider: https://www.amazon.ca/Bartók-Hungary-...