Acculturation Strategies in Musical Self-Presentations of Immigrants in the Czech R












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            * Zita Skořepová Honzlová
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            Abstrakt

            This paper is based on my research dealing with musicians - members of different immigrant
            communities who explicitly identify themselves with their ethnicity and the region of thei
            musicians mention that they come, e.g., from Cuba, Ukraine or generally from "Central Asia

            offered to the audience is presented as "Cuban," "Ukrainian folk" or "traditional music of
            The subject of study is their concerts, regarded as musical occasions - performances - wit
            of participants' interaction. In the Goffmanian sense, the meaning of each self-presentati

            by the behavior of the musicians during the performances, and the repertoire, place and oc
            event and type of audience are considered as "bearers of signs." In their self-presentatio

            expose in various ways who they are, where they come from and in various ways present the 
            only) culture of their origin. Inspiring myself by typology of acculturation strategies fo
            W. Berry (Berry et al. 1997), I try to identify acculturation strategies based on factors 

            character of the respective musical self-presentations of the immigrants. When can we obse
            according to the principles of integration on the one hand and separation on the other? Wh
            strategy, how do the musicians assert themselves on the Czech musical scene?


            Klíčová slova
            ethnomusicology; self-presentation; immigrants; acculturation strategies


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