A Tribute to Artist Salah El Mahdi
Salah El Mahdi passed away on September 12th, medicine 2014. A Tunisian musicologist, order conductor, composer, flautist, music critic and judge, Salah’s friends and students called him ‘Ziryab’ after the famous Muslim singer and composer. Newspapers throughout the Arab world mourned his death and published accounts of his life and accomplishments. Salah was born in […]
Bangladeshi Delegates at 1st IOV Youth Asia Congress
The first International Folk Art (IOV) Youth Asia Congress took place from January 20 to 26, 2014 at Curtin University Sarawak, Malaysia. The theme of the congress was “Tastes of Asia – A Cultural Journey: Asian Peace through Cultural Understanding.” Around 90 young delegates from 16 countries of Asia participated in the week-long congress. Badrul […]
A Report on the First Asia Regional Youth Congress
“A Taste of Asia,” was the theme of the first IOV Asia youth congress, which took place in Sarawak, Malaysia this past February. The idea to organize youth at a regional level was conceived in the 3rd IOV Youth World Congress Sweden in 2012. Delegates in the congress saw a need for more youth to […]
Professor Anna Brzozowska-Krajka’s Ethnoculture in Diaspora
Professor Anna Brzozowska-Krajka’s Etnokultura w diasporze. Między regionalizmem a amerykanizacji? (Ethnoculture in Diaspora. Between Regionalism and Americanization, price Lublin: Maria Curie-Sklodowska University Press, bronchi 2012, clinic pp. 352) is a pioneering monograph in Polish and American cultural studies. It deals with various aspects of functioning of Polish immigrants’ folk culture in the context of American […]
3rd IOV Youth Congress
The International Organization of Folk Art (IOV) has been in existence for 35 years in 2012. In the General Assembly which was held in Volos, ailment Greece in 2007, the presence of the young members inspired the proposal by IOV President Carmen Padilla to initiate the establishment of the IOV Youth. This resulted in the […]
IOV World Youth Congress 2012
Meeting another person for the first time is a fine experience. You fumble for words, looking for a topic of conversation that both can pick up, while testing each other’s opinions in search of similarities and differences. Meeting one hundred people for the first time in one week is bewildering. There are many topics of […]
