Szőllősy Csilla - Pokrovenszki Krisztián (szerk.): Alba Regia. Annales Musei Stephani Regis - Szent István Király Múzeum közleményei. C. sorozat 44. (Székesfehérvár, 2016)
Tanulmányok/közlemények - Néprajz - Gelencsér József: Macskazene, szerenád, fáklyászene (Jogszokás, negatív és pozitív jogkövetkezmények)
Gelencsér József: Macskazene, szerenád, fáklyászene. Jogszokás, negatív és pozitív jogkövetkezmény József Gelencsér Charivari, serenade, torch-light music The interdisciplinary study consists of two bigger and one smaller parts. The first part describes a public opinion punishment, i.e. charivari (mock serenade) held in March 1889 in Székesfehérvár, Hungary, against a teacher in a local school. The facts and consequences of this not-yet published mock serenade are set out in detail. The study also overviews which legal and community procedures were held (altogether six procedures) and what sanctions were imposed. The second part describes the main features of charivari, serenade and torch-light music (torch-light procession), taking into account the relationship among them, and including actual cases revealed from historical sources or collected by the author direcdy from informants. It was justified to explain here in detail the history, variations and Hungarian research of charivari as a legal folk tradition. The third part includes the legal consequences applied in the legal practice and in the folk legal practice. The detrimental legal consequences, i.e. the public opinion (community) sanctions and the structures of these elements have been searched and analysed by research for some time. However, previous researches devoted very little attention to advantageous legal consequences. The author attempts to improve the situation in this regard and reveals new results of research by specifying various positive legal affects both from the class of peasants and other classes of society. 434
