![]() ![]() It focuses primarily on the Folk Music Department of the Sibelius Academy music conservatory in Helsinki, where the genre was created and where its most important practitioners have studied or currently teach and work. This dissertation provides an ethnographic account of the history, ideology, teaching methods, and current performance practices and creative processes of Finnish contemporary folk music, an urban, professional music using traditional Finnish folk music as a point of departure for contemporary, individualistic creations. These new, fashionable trends are stimulated by players themselves as well as by their fans, by a broad base of organised heligónka events, by mass media and by social network communication. ![]() They are reflected mainly in repertoire which in some regions dominantly consists of hits represented by polkas and waltzes of the Czech and Moravian provenience or by minor key melodies even though the instrument had been “constructed” for playing major key songs. The aim of the paper is to show that even now it has lost nothing of its popularity however in fact it represents next to positive also negative consequences. The same happened in Slovakia in the interwar period when the instrument – known as heligónka - had become an important part of the Slovak traditional music. ![]() In comparison to other musical instruments the diatonic button accordion has become popular almost immediately after its appearance which had been a case of Austria, Germany and Bohemia since the second half of the 19th century. These changes are most often related to the transformation of rural environment, disappearance of traditional playing opportunities, global and commercial influences and new forms of media presentation. Folk musical instruments are subjects to the same changes as the other manifestations of traditional folk culture. ![]()
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