Traditsioon ja regilaul folkloristika muutuvas kontekstis
Tradition and regilaul (Estonian Runic Song) in the Evolving Context of Folkloristics

Summary/Abstract: The article investigates the changing concept of ’tradition’ in the folk song studies of the second half of the 20th and early 21st century. The studies of the 1950s– 1980s were usually focused on typologization, i.e. on classifying the folk-songrecordings so as to reduce their number into one of „same songs”. in order to find the relevant criteria to be used in typologization the text structure of the songs was studied, first and foremost, while some attention was also paid to the role of time context and singers in the changing of songs. in the 1990s and 2000s the focus of interest gradually shifted from text systematization to song communicativity, which brought about a change in the concept of ’tradition’. Earlier the term ’tradition’ used to refer to lore as a whole, including texts as well as the context of their performance, but the more folklore came to be regarded as part of the communication process the more the term ’tradition’ started falling apart, coming to denote not so much the song as a whole, but rather the devices of its creation, text parts, rules of its performance etc. among else, the concept of ’culture’ was differentiated from that of ’tradition’, the former referring to certain performance situations or periods of a tradition.

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