Svadba Mirte i Vida Baloga: "Onak po starinski"
Mirta and Vid's Wedding: "You Know, The Old-Fashioned Way"

Summary/Abstract: The paper deals with Mirta and Vid Balog's wedding, held in 1996 in Gotalovo. It was meant to relive the "old-fashioned" customs from Podravina as much as possible. The Croatian Television produced a film about it, called "Mirta's Wedding wreath" (Mirtin svadbeni vijenac). Due to filming, this wedding partly turned into a folklore performance intended for public display. A part of pre-wedding events and most part of the wedding have also been filmed with an amateur camera. The analysis of multilayered events of this wedding was enabled by these two tapes, along with data obtained from the author's interviews with Mirta and Vid Balog. The analysis showed that this wedding connected the contemporary and the traditional in a special way, by constructing the wedding as a whole from parts of different age. Two songs and several customs, that cannot be encountered elsewhere at Podravina's weddings, belong to the older wedding contents. Most of the rest of the wedding customs belong to the contemporary wedding model, that corporate several local specific features and many widespread contemporary wedding customs.

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