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Hungarian Duda in N. America

“musicians...are often the only people able to shape a shared aesthetic space” ¹ and who have social permission to do so (authorial comment).

The authors share very different upbringings — Emese Prandovszky O’Donnell was born and raised in Hungary around the end of the Communist era, growing up with Hungarian folk music. She played recorder, clarinet, and sang folk songs. She has been dancing for over 10 years in a Hungarian folk Ensemble, called Tisza. She has attended many Hungarian folkdance camps and leads a Hungarian folk band called Szikra. Craig Packard grew up in England and Massachusetts, USA, his main musical influences being 9 years in a Boy Scout Highland bagpipe band in the 1950s and 60s and participation in the U.S. folk revival of the early 60s at Oberlin College. We both have devoted and continue to devote large amounts of time and energy to teaching, dancing to, and playing dance music of the central European regions' folk traditions on various instruments. We’re thinking of regions where there are members of Hungarian, Romani, Romanian, Jewish, German-speaking, and South Slavic groups. We both keep in mind the quote from Slobin beneath the title and at the close of this article.

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