PIESŃOVÁ TRADÍCIA NEMCOV V MEDZEVE
THE SONG TRADITION OF THE GERMANS IN MEDZEV

Summary/Abstract: Medzev (Ober- and Untermetzenseifen) originally belonged to the system of German mining towns in the lower Spi. region of Slovakia. It developed in an independent way and became the centre of the so-called .Manták. micro-region, in which elements of the culture of the lower Spi. Germans, and at the same time crystallized some of its own specific features. These were formed both in orientation towards nearby Hungarian speaking territory and in wider Central European contacts. Medzev represented an open type of culture of a small town with a craft tradition and activities of a numerous group of local intelligentsia. The remnants of the German song repertoire are a reflection of a dynamic development with the continuity of some more archaic phenomena. The coexistence of oral and written forms of tradition is characteristic of the song culture. This influences the genre structure and form of interpretation. The symbiosis of folk, semi-folk and composed creative works was the result of a search for cultural and ethnic identity in the minority environment

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