Gyökerek • A Dráva Múzeum tanulmánykötete, 2005

Vass Oszkár: Somogyi kanásztánc – somogyi verbunk

Vass Oszkár: Somogyi kanásztánc - somogyi verbunk OSZKÁR VASS SWINE-HERD'S DANCE - RECRUITING DANCE IN SOMOGY COUNTY SUMMARY In accordance with the data the style of recruiting dance (verbunkos) isn't found in the discussed area but the name of it was used to name the jumpingswineherdsman dance type. The lack of the recruiting dance refers to the archaism of the region. Studying the motives we can say that the steps of the swineherdsman dance which was performed with tools were integrated by the peasantry under a new name. The development more exactly the taking over of the dance can be dated from the beginning of the 19th century when the new national dance and music style, the verbunkos gained ground more and more. Recruitment was held in this countryside too but the bandsmen's alluring music used the archaic tunes of swineherdsman dance not the classical, new style melodies of recruiting songs. The presumable cause of it was the fact that the recruitment reached this region sooner than the hallmarks of the dance and music style. The recruiting dance uses those figures which were characteristics of the swineherdsman dance but it refrains from the extreme motives. It does without the jumping and the chrouching figures which are the main characteristic peculiarities of the swineherdsman dance and the quantity of the hits of the legs decreases. The impoverishment of this dance is also showed by the following findings: the ornamented variations with JĴ X rythm are changed by the moving with X X pulsation on account of the easy-flowing dance. Giving a summary of our theme we can say that the recruiting dance in Somogy county took shape from the dance traditions of sheperds and (swine)herdsmen at the turn of the 18th and 19th century. This fact made the survival of the archaic dance and music inheritance of the disintegrating traditional herdsman culture possible. 179