The archetype–generating element of the folklore creation

Abstract

Any folklore creation is subject to influences, and borrowings but it is based on a series of common factors, that surpass, apparently with inexplicable ease, the differences in language, race, type of culture, geographical area, or historical period. In the folklore musical field, because of the existence of an attitude towards society, history, world, and universe, as well as of a well-articulated anthropological conception, the traditional community only promotes the creations that it considers valuable, it gives up the practices and the ceremonials that have become obsolete, by using archetypical syntagms and paradigms full of symbols and metaphors, that meet their regeneration and recovery necessities.