Adalékok a Délvidéken kibontakozó Gyöngyösbokréta mozgalom kezdeti szakaszához (1936–1941)
Additions to the Initial Stage of the Development of Gyöngyösbokréta Movement in Vojvodina (1936–1941)

Summary/Abstract: In my study, I tried to analyze the initial phase of the Gyöngyösbokréta movement emerging in Vojvodina province. The framework of my interpretation was given by the objectives and events of the Gyöngyösbokréta movement in Hungary and by the political ideals and social circles that dominated the first half of the 20th century. The dissertation is not complete, and in the future there would be still many details worth exploring. For example, in which way were the societies organized within the villages, who could be a member, which dances were danced exactly, what kind of clothes were used... etc. Exactly how many municipalities organized it and how many times did such events take place? What was the minority policy of former Yugoslavia nand how did they react to the Hungarians' movement? So I do not consider this topic to be closed in my present book in which I have outlined my partial results so far. From this partial results it can be stated that the Gyöngyösbokréta in Vojvodina province was created on a Hungarian sample, although it differed in some aspects during the discussed period. The Gyöngyösbokréta in Vojvodina is considered to be a movement because it occasionally animated thousands of people. Their goals were also the same. In Hungary, it was clearly a top-down initiative, in the disannexed Bácska this is not entirely clear, but in my opinion it can be considered a top-down movement as well. However, an important difference is that in Vojvodina almost the only organizer of events were the villagers. Those who created large-scale events without any kind of state control or control committees. They could have shaped the movement more autonomous than the organizers in Hungary. Of course there were consequences of this kind of freedom. Without professional ethnographic monitoring many changes and new elements have been introduced into the culture of rural society (in connection with clothing, dance, folk music). The settlements could imitate one another, as no one monitored the performances. In some villages in west Bácska there is still a possibility for science to separate the cultural elements that have been established into the community’s tradition as a result of the Gyöngyösbokréta movement. The Gyöngyösbokréta brought all kind of changes in rural culture as well as a new kind of cultural entertainment where villagers and citizens could entertain themselves together. It has made possible for the two social strata to get closer to each other, much needed after the Trianon Treaty when the southern Hungarians found themselves in a country where they became an ethnic minority.

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