Publications
recurrence (in two parts)
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: Performance Matters, Volume 9, Issue 1-2, 2023, pp. 187-204 Weblink: erudit.org Description: This essay explores the author’s process of trying to understand how to responsibly forge a relationship with traditional song heritage given conditions of ethnocultural rupture. Weaving together Slovácko folk songs transcribed by the author’s great-grandfather, an archival recording of the […]
Living song : an intergenerational investigation of Moravian folk song
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: PhD Thesis for the University of British Columbia Weblink: ubc.library.ca Description: Throughout the first half of the 20th century, biologist/ethnomusicologist Vladimír Úlehla (1888-1947) transcribed hundreds of folk songs from Strážnice, his hometown in the rural region of Slovácko, which lies at the border of present-day Czech and Slovak Republics. For Úlehla, Slovácko songs […]
Experiencing Resonance as a Practice of Ritual Engagement
Author: Julia Ulehla, Manulani Aluli-Meyer, Delphine Armstrong, Mariel Belanger, Jill Carter, Cori Derickson, Claire Fogal, Vicki Kelly, Carolyn Kenny, Virginie Magnat, Joseph Naytowhow, and Winston Wuttunee Publication details: In Research and Reconciliation: Unsettling Ways of Knowing Through Indigenous Relationships, edited by Shawn Wilson, Adrea V. Breen, and Lindsay Dupré, 157-178. Toronto: Canadian Scholars, 2019 Weblink: ebookcentral.proquest.com Description: In this […]
The Essence and Evolution of Song
Author: Vladimír Úlehla. Translated by Julia Ulehla. Edited by Katherine Freeze and Richard K. Wolf Publication details: Ethnomusicology Translations, Number 7, 2018, pp. 1-136. Weblink: scholarworks.iu.edu Description: Vladimír Úlehla (1888-1947) uses his expertise in the biological sciences to perform an in-depth and ecologically situated study of folk songs from his native Czechoslovakia. His posthumous magnum opus […]
The Memory of the Body: Folk Song as a Key for Releasing Cultural Memory
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: On Memory, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 145-50. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2018. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: Offered as a companion to a Dálava performance that occurred at the 2018 iteration of the Folk Holidays Festival, this essay posits the body as a receptacle of […]
And You, Dear Eagle, Have You Seen My Cows? Reflections of Moravian Song in North American Indigenous Spaces
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: Reflections, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 119-31. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2017. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: According to mythologist Martin Shaw, folk tales are not the “penned agenda of one brainrattled individual” who employs “the most succulent portions of the human imagination” to author […]
Encountering Life in Sound : Affect, Vibration, and the Architecture of Sound (Davala Concert)
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: Performance given for a Colloquium of the International Institute for Critical Studies in Improvisation. Weblink: library.ubc.ca Description: Concert by the experimental folk band Dálava, given as part of a workshop entitled “Encountering Life in Song: Affect, Vibration, and the Architecture of Sound” by Julia Úlehla. In the workshop recording, Úlehla answers questions from […]
Conjuring Ancestors: Moravian Folklore in the Urban Avant-Garde
Author: Julia Ulehla Publication details: In From Folklore to World Music: In the Beginning There Was…, edited by Irena Přibylová and Lucie Uhlíková, 114-23. Náměšt nad Oslavou: Municipal Cultural Center, 2016. Weblink: folkoveprazdniny.cz Description: This presentation explores the sources, both real and imagined, of a diasporic performance practice/auto-ethnographic research on Moravian folk song. The New York/Vancouver based Dálava […]