<abstract xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><p> This article characterizes the male dance odzemok as one of the most representative dances in the broad spectrum of Slovak folk dances. A more detailed analysis and subsequent analysis of the literature confirms the absence of a comprehensive integrated material concerning odzemok in a wider context. This text further highlights the historical development of said male dance in the central geographic area, and analyzes the factors that led to the development of its present form.</p></abstract>

This article characterizes the male dance odzemok as one of the most representative dances in the broad spectrum of Slovak folk dances. A more detailed analysis and subsequent analysis of the literature confirms the absence of a comprehensive integrated material concerning odzemok in a wider context. This text further highlights the historical development of said male dance in the central geographic area, and analyzes the factors that led to the development of its present form.

Odzemok: Cultural and Historical Development

Department of Ethnology and World Studies, University of SS. Cyril and Methodius in Trnava,

Ethnologia Actualis

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This article characterizes the male dance odzemok as one of the most representative dances in the broad spectrum of Slovak folk dances. A more detailed...

Odzemok: Cultural and Historical Development

Published Online: Feb 08, 2017

Page range: 81 - 98

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eas-2017-0006

Keywords
folk dance, folk music, male dance, odzemok, hajduch, valachian colonization

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Odzemok: Cultural and Historical Development

Published Online: Feb 08, 2017

Page range: 81 - 98

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1515/eas-2017-0006

Keywordsfolk dance, folk music, male dance, odzemok, hajduch, valachian colonization

© 2017

This work is licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 License.

Keywords
folk dance, folk music, male dance, odzemok, hajduch, valachian colonization