Actually, I’m Pagan Thanks to Music : The Role of Žiarislav’s Music in the Life of Modern Pagans in Slovakia

PUCHOVSKÝ, Michal. Actually, I’m Pagan Thanks to Music : The Role of Žiarislav’s Music in the Life of Modern Pagans in Slovakia. THE POMEGRANATE. Sheffield: Equinox Publishing Ltd., 2022, vol. 24, No 1, p. 17-40. ISSN 1528-0268. Available from: https://dx.doi.org/10.1558/pome.24260.

Basic information

• Original name: Actually, I’m Pagan Thanks to Music : The Role of Žiarislav’s Music in the Life of Modern Pagans in Slovakia
• Authors: PUCHOVSKÝ, Michal (703 Slovakia, guarantor, belonging to the institution).
• Edition: THE POMEGRANATE, Sheffield, Equinox Publishing Ltd. 2022, 1528-0268.

Other information

• Original language: English
• Type of outcome: Article in a journal
• Field of Study: 60304 Religious studies
• Country of publisher: United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland
• Confidentiality degree: is not subject to a state or trade secret
• WWW: Link to the study
• Impact factor: Impact factor: 0.200
• RIV identification code: RIV/00216224:14210/22:00127228
• Organization unit: Faculty of Arts
• Doi: http://dx.doi.org/10.1558/pome.24260
• UT WoS: 000932395700002
• Keywords in English: music; identity; symbolic interactionism; Žiarislav; contemporary Paganism; Slovakia; Slovak national identity
• Tags: rivok
• Tags: International impact, Reviewed

Abstract

The paper presents findings regarding the role of music in the community and teachings of the Slovak contemporary Pagan leader Žiarislav, based on ethnographic research carried out between 2016 and 2018. The paper discusses three inter-related themes: (a) the role of music in the community of Žiarislav’s followers, (b) the role of Žiarislav’s music in the process of shaping modern Pagan identity, and (c) music as an instrument for the spreading of alternative or dissenting ideas. The conclusions are based on an anthropological investigation into the lives and music-related customs of Žiarislav’s followers. The paper also explores the significance of music in Žiarislav’s spiritual teachings. Research into modern Pagan music is a thriving field, and all such research assists with an understanding of a living form of modern Slovak Paganism. It also represents an ideal research space for the study of strategies regarding the (re-)actualization of Slovak national identity among modern Pagans in Slovakia, one pillar of which is traditional Slovak folk culture, including music.

Links

• MUNI/A/1377/2021, interní kód MU: Name: Víra a tradice po rozpadu jistot modernity: K antropologii a historiografii po postkolonialismu a postmoderně (Acronym: VITRAROM)

Investor: Masaryk University