Publications authored by Anca Giurchescu

Anca Giurchescu (1930-2015), etnochoreologist and Romanian dance researcher, published numerous works in many languages during her career covering over six decades. This page lists the majority of her works in the table below.
Anca published two books on her ethnographic research:
1. Folclor Coregraphic din Tara Vrancei, 1974, (co-author Constantin Eretescu) in Romanian
2. Romanian Traditional Dance, 1995, (co-author Sunni Bloland) in English
In addition she was co-editor for two proceedings of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnomusicology (1991 and 2012), a special edition on dance of the ICTM Yearbook (1991), and the book “Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music” (2016).
Anca’s academic publications can be roughly divided by years into three groups:
- 1957-1979 Articles published in the Journal of the Institute of Ethnography and Folklore ‘Revistă de folclor or ‘Revistă de etnografie și folclor’ in Romanian, plus some additional papers in other Romanian journals, and some in foreign journals (ICTM Yearbook, Der Tanz).
- 1983-1990 Papers included in ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music) publications in English, as well as papers published in German, French, Danish and Hungarian. In this period Anca also travelled extensively to give conference and symposium presentations in many countries.
- 1990-2015 Articles in Romanian mostly on her long term research on the căluș ritual. Papers included in ICTM (International Council of Traditional Music) publications in English, and papers in other journals.
Authors | Year | Title | Book/Journal | Details |
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Anca Giurchescu | 1957 | Jocurile din Vrancea | Revista de Folclor | vol.2, no.4, pages 55-76 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1957 | Din realizării folcloristicii noastre | Revista de Folclor | vol.2, no.4, pages 129-30 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1959 | Despre cicurile de joc din Ardeal | Revista de Folclor | vol.4, no.1-2, pages 261-278 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1959 | Suită de dansuri bulgăreşti şi suită de dansuri tătăreşti, | Dansuri populare ale naționalităților conlocuitoare | |
Anca Giurchescu | 1960 | Câteva problema legate de aspectul cotemporan al jocului popular românesc | Revista de Folclor | vol.5, no.3-4, pages 65-72 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1961 | Dezbateri în legatură cu repertoriul ansamblurilor de cântece şi dansuri | Revista de Folclor | vol.6, no.1-2, pages 131-134 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1962 | Jocuri fecioreşti din Ardeal | Revista de Folclor | vol.7, no.1-2, pages 181-186 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1962 | Opportunities for folk dancing In the upper Mures valley | Information Bulletin No. 5 : The folklore festival of the Balkan and Adriatic countries, Rumanian People’s Republic, Bucharest July 27th - August 4th 1962 | pages 6-9 |
Anca Giurchescu and Costin Costea | 1962 | Haidăul | Revista de Folclor | vol.7, no.1-2, pages 94-117 |
Anca Giurchescu and Costin Costea | 1962 | Aspecte folclorice noi şi tradiţionale din raionul Topliţa | Revista de Folclor | vol.7, no.3-4, pages 97-101 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1963 | Din realizările noastre: Discuţii asupra terminologiei în jocul popular | Revista de Folclor | vol.8, no.1-2, pages 159-174 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1963 | Jocurile ciobăneşti din satul Dumbrava | Revista de Folclor | vol.8, no.3-4, pages 60-73 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1964 | Analiza Structurii Dansuri Popular Rominesc | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.9, no.2, pages 191-199 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1964 | Două lucrări maghiare privind studiul dansului popular | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.9, no.3, pages 312-314 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1964 | Însemnări pe marginea celui de-ai VII-lea concurs al formaților artistice de amatori | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.9, no.6, pages 639-642 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1964 | Was erwarten wir von einer zeitgenossischen folkloristichen Choreographie? | Der Tanz | vol.12, pages 19-21 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1965 | Obervaţii asupra structurii arhitectonice a dansurilor cu formă fixa | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | pages 389-398 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1965 | Probleme des rumänischen Volkstanzes | Der Tanz | vol.1, pages 1-21 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1966 | Filmul ca instrument al cercetării folclorice | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.11, no.3, pages 251-258 |
Vera Proca-Ciortea and Anca Giurchescu | 1966 | Conferinţele internaţionale de terminologie a dansului popular | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.11, no.1, pages 86-88 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1967 | Purtatele de fete de pe Valea Târnavelor | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.12, no.4, pages 283-298 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1968 | Congresul Uniunii folcloriştilor iugoslavi | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.13, no.1, pages 95-6 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1968 | Aspecte ale fenomenului de improvizaţie în dansul popular românesc | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.13, no.3, pages 229-234 |
Vera Proca-Ciortea and Anca Giurchescu | 1968 | Quelques aspects théoriques de l'analyse de la danse populaire [Some Theoretical Aspects of Folk Dance Analysis]. | Éditions Larousse | vol.3, no.10, pages 87-93 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1969 | Dansul în obiceiul calusarilor [Dance in the calusari custom] | Festivalul Calusului Slatina 28 - 29 Iunie 1969 : Studii, referate si comunicari [The festival of Calus: Studies, papers, and communications] | pages 29-41 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1970 | Cercetarea contextuală a dansurilor populare | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.15, no.1, pages 21-28 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1970 | Colaborarea românească cu "Institut für den Wissenschaftlichen Film-Göttingen" | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.15, no.6, pages 529-31 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1971 | Raportul între modelul folcloric şi produsele spectaculare de dans popular | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.16, no.5, pages 369-374 |
Anca Giurchescu and Radu Niculescu | 1971 | Theses sure la structure de la danse folklorique (research paper). | Seminar of audio-visual semiotics | |
Anca Giurchescu | 1972 | Functionaliţatea dansurilor funebre în concepţia populară | Folclor Literar (1969-70) | vol.III, pages 121-128 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1972 | Repertoriu de dansuri populare | Atlasul Complex Portile de Fier | pages 246-247 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1972 | Repertoriu de dansuri populare (Ada Kaleh) (The repertory of folk dances) | Atlasul Complex Portile de Fier | pages 260-262 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1973 | Unele aspecte ale interferenţei dintre sfera culturii populare şi cea a culturii de masă | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.17, no.3, pages 181-90 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1973 | La Danse comme objet sémiotique | Yearbook of the International Folk Music Council | vol.5, pages 175-178 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1974 | The căluș | Balkan Arts Traditions | vol. Spring 1974, pages 25-10 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1974 | Une contribution a l'etude comparee du folklore choreographique roumain et celui de la Yougoslavie, la danse de «Căluşari» | Rad XIV, Kongresa Saveza folklorista Jugoslavije u Prizrenu, 1967 | pages 389-394 |
Anca Giurchescu and Constantin Eretescu | 1974 | Folclor Coregraphic din Tara Vrancei | ||
G Wolf and Anca Giurchescu | 1974 | IWF Calusari Priseaca E2020 | ||
Anca Giurchescu | 1975 (2002) | Időszerű kérdések a román néptánc kutatásában" [Topical Issues in the Study of Romanian Folk Dance] | Tánctudományi Tanulmányok | pages 191-204 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1976 | Obiceiul călușului - permanenta a culturii românesti" (The căluș custom-permanency of the Romanian culture), . | Research paper presented at the scientific session of the Institute of Ethnological and Dialectological Research, Bucharest, September, 1976 | |
G Wolf and Anca Giurchescu | 1976 | IWF Calusari Priseaca Dance & Death game E1654 | ||
G Wolf and Anca Giurchescu | 1976 | IWF Calusari Priseaca Setting up Flag and Dance in Courtyard E1653 | ||
Anca Giurchescu | 1977 | Valorificarea folclorului în cadrul festivalului național "Cântarea României" | Revista de Etnografie și Folclor | vol.21, no.2, pages 227-31 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1979 | Trăsături specifice ale dansului popular românesc în context european | Anuarul Institutului de Cercetări Etnologice şi Dialectologice | vol.1, |
Anca Giurchescu | 1983 | The process of improvisation in folk dance | Dance Studies | vol.7, pages 21-56 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1983 | Entwurf einer Klassifizierung der rumänischen Kettentänze | Analyse und Klassifikazion von Volkstanzen | pages 160-190 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1983/4 | Dansen som kulturel udtryksform : Forskningsprojektet: Danse-etnologi, et bidrag til folkedansens teori og forskningsmetode i en nutidig social kontekst | Humaniora | vol.6, pages 191-197 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1984 | European perspectives in structural analysis of dance | Dance a multicultural perspective. Report of the third study of dance conference | pages 33-48 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1984 | Danse et Transe: Les căluşari (Interpretation d’un rituel valaque) | Dialogue Revue d’Ètudes Roumaines et des Traditions Orale Mediterannéennes | no.12-13, pages 81-118 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1986 | Power and Charm. Interaction of Adolescent Men and Women in Traditional Settings of Transylvania | Yearbook for Traditional Music | vol.18, pages 37-46 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1986 | Dance text and contextual research | Proceedings of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology meeting in Neubrandenburg, DDR, 8-12 May. | |
Anca Giurchescu | 1987 | The national festival ‘Song to Romania’ : manipulation of symbols in the political discourse | Symbols of power | pages 163-171 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1987 | The dance discourse. Dance suites and dance cycles of Romania and elsewhere in Europe | Dance Studies | vol.11, pages 9-71 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1988 | Dansens dobbelte rolle : om vlacherne et folk med hjemvé | Længde S. | vol.10, no.42, pages 12-19 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1988 | Continuitate si discontinuitate in traditia culturala a romanilor din sudul Dunarii, stabiliti in Danemarca" (Continuity and discontinuity in the cultural tradition of the Romanians south of the Danube settled in Denmark) | Journal of the American Romanian Academy of Arts and Sciences | vol.1, pages 231-241 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1989 | Den rumænske tragedie | Kristeligt dagblad | |
Anca Giurchescu | 1989 | A question of method: contextual analysis of dancing at the vlachs "hora" in Denmark | The dance event: a complex cultural phenomenon: The 15th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Copenhagen, 1988 | pages 34–43 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1990 | Le Căluş: proces de transformation d'un rituel roumain | Tradition et Histoire dans la Culture Populaire | |
Anca Giurchescu | 1990 | The use of traditional symbols for recasting the present : a case study of tourism in Rumania | Dance Studies | vol.14, pages 47-64 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1991 | Methods of Research: Studying a dance event among the Vlachs living in Denmark | Proceedings of the Second British-Swedish Conference on Musicology: Ethnmusicology, Cambridge, 5-10 August 1989. | pages 341-355 |
Anca Giurchescu and László Felföldi | 1991 | Introduction | Studia Musicologica, Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae: The 16th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Budapest, 1990 | vol.33, pages 197–202 |
Anca Giurchescu and Lisbet Torp | 1991 | Theory and methods in dance research: A European approach to the holistic study of dance | Yearbook for Traditional Music | vol.23, pages 1 -10 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1992 | A comparative analysis between the căluș of the Danube: plain and călușerul of Transylvania (Romania) | Studia Musicologica, Academiae Scientiarum Hungaricae: The 16th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Budapest, 1990 | vol.34, pages 31–44 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1993 | Ecologia culturii populare | Datini : Revistă de Cultură | vol.2-5, pages 4-5 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1993 | Folklore in the service of the state ideology, Romania: a case study (research paper). | Presented to the Symposium on the Balkans: folklore and national symbols, Institute for European Studies | |
Anca Giurchescu | 1993 | A táncszimbólum, mint a kommunikáció eszköze [The dance symbol as a means of communication] | Martin György Emlékezeti Visszaemlékezések és tanulmányok születésének hatvanadik évfordulójára | pages 61-68 |
Anca Giurchescu and Lisbet Torp | 1993 | Folk Dance Collections and Folk Dance Research in Denmark and the Færoe Islands | Yearbook for Traditional Music | vol.25, pages 126 - 135 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1994 | The dance symbol as a means of communication | Acta Ethnographica Hungarica | vol.39, no.1-2, pages 95-102 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1994 | The power and the dance symbol and its sociopolitical use | Dance and its socio-political aspects: dance and costume: The 17th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Nafplion, 1992 | pages 15–24 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1994 | Valoarea documentului | Datini : Revistă de Cultură | vol.4-5, |
Anca Giurchescu | 1995 | From myth to reality and back again: symbolic manipulation of a Romanian ritual and its iconographic documents”. | Research paper presented at the colloquium on the topic „Myth and reality in dance pictures”, Innsbruck, Austria, June 13-14. | |
Anca Giurchescu and Sunni Bloland | 1995 | Romanian traditional dance : A contextual and structural approach | ||
Anca Giurchescu and Lisbet Torp | 1995 | Dance-music relationships: an introduction | Dance, ritual and music: Proceedings of the 18th Symposium of the Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Skiemiewice, 1994 | pages 143–150 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1997 | Unitatea Călușului în spațiul cultural carpato-dunărean | Datini : Revistă de Cultură | vol.1-2, pages 20-21 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1998 | Gypsy dance style as a marker of ethnic identity | Dance, style youth identities: Proceedings of the 19th Symposium of the Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Třešt', 1996 | pages 80–87 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1999 | Past and present in field research : a critical history of personal experience | Dance in the field : theory, methods and issues in dance ethnography | pages 41-54 |
Anca Giurchescu | 1999 | Les danses du monde. Exemples musicaux | Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie [Online] | vol.12, pages 220-224 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2000 | Gypsy Dance Style as Marker of Ethnic Identity | Music, language, and literature of the Roma and Sinti | |
Anca Giurchescu | 2000 | Interpreting a dancer's discourse on improvisation | Traditional Dance and Its Historical Sources. Creative Processes in Dance: Improvisation and Composition: 20th Symposium Proceedings, İstanbul, 1998 | pages 259–274 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2001 | The power of dance and its social and political uses | Yearbook for Traditional Music | vol.33, pages 109-121 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2001 | Le danseur et le musicien, une connivence nécessaire | Cahiers d’ethnomusicologie [Online] | vol.14, pages 79-94 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2001 | Căluș between ritual and national symbol: survival and the strategy of adaptation to contemporary social settings | Proceedings: 21st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Korčula, 2000 | pages 62–69 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2001 | Gypsy dancing in southern Romania | Glasba In Manjšine - Music and Minorities. Proceedings of the 1st ICTM Study group Music and Minorities, Ljubljana, Slovenia, June 25-30, 2000. | pages 177-187 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2003 | Dance aesthetics in traditional Romanian communities | Yearbook for Traditional Music | vol.35, pages 163-171 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2004 | Căluş - between ritual and national symbol | www.hgo.se/Căluş | |
Anca Giurchescu | 2005 | Dance aesthetics in traditional Romanian communities | Dance and Society: Dancer as a Cultural Perfomer: 22nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Szeged, 2002 | pages 216–223 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2005 | Report on the fieldwork experiment in Bulgaria (2001) | Dance and Society: Dancer as a a Cultural Perfomer: 22nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Szeged, 2002 | pages 235–240 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2005 | History of the ICTM study group on ethnochoreology | Dance and Society: Dancer as a a Cultural Perfomer: 22nd Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Szeged, 2002 | pages 252–266 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2007 | A historical perspective on the analysis of dance structure in the International Folk Music Council (IFMC) / International Council for Traditional Music (ICTM) | Dance structures : perspectives on the analysis of human movement | vol.3, pages 3-18 |
Anca Giurchescu and Eva Kröschlová | 2007 | Theory and method of dance form analysis | Dance structures: perspectives on the analysis of human movement | vol.Studies in ethnology, 3, pages 21-52 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2008 | Căluş: between ritual and national symbol. The cultural market of traditions | Martor | vol.13, pages 15-26 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2008 | Symbolic communication: dancing for the living, dancing for the dead | Invisible and visible dance: Crossing identity boundaries: Proceedings: 23st Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Monghidoro, 2004 | pages 64–69 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2009 | Este Călușul fără steag „Căluș adevărat”? | Căluşul, emblemă identitară | pages 60-85 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2009 | Căluşul în zona de tensiune întrecercetare şi salvgardare în 'Cum sa ajuns de la obiceiul Căluşului la tradiţia Căluşului şi la Capodopera Patrimoniului Cultural Imaterial UNESCO „Ritualul Căluşului”? ' | Conferințele de la Șosea (March 2009) | |
Anca Giurchescu | 2010 | Intersectii si confluente. (Amintiri legate de György Martin) | Coregrafia și etnocoreologia maghiară din Transilvania în mileniul trei II | pages 11-32 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2010 | Preziti Rituâlu V Soucasinych Spolecenskych Kotextech. Căluş - Mezi Rituâlem A Nârodim Symbolem” [“Survival of a ritual in contemporary social contexts. Căluş - between ritual and national symbol”]. | Nărodopisn Revue | vol.4, pages 244-259. |
Anca Giurchescu, Margaret Beissinger, Victor Stoichiţa, Costin Moisil, Florin Iordan, Mirela Radu and Speranţa Rădulescu | 2010 | Maneaua: Istorie, alcatuire, rosturi, intelesuri | Conferinţele de la Şosea (25 martie 2010) | |
Anca Giurchescu | 2011 | Cetele de căluşari au capacitatea de a se dedubla şi de a performa cu aceeaşi convingere şi credinţă atât în context tradiţional cât şi scenic | Mozaicul (Revista de Cultura Fondata la Craiova) | vol.14, no.Nr. 6, pages 4 |
Anca Giurchescu and Speranta Radulescu | 2011 | Music, Dance, and behaviour in a New Form of Expressive Culture: The Romanian Manea | Yearbook for Traditional Music Vol 43 | pages 1-36 |
Anca Giurchescu and Speranta Radulescu | 2011 | Music and dance of Pan-Balkan (and Mediterrean) fusion : The case of the Romanian manea | Proceedings of the Second Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Music and Dance in Southeastern Europe | pages 42-52 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2012 | The field as a ‘culture text’ or ‘textulising’ the field reality (Panel introduction) | From field to text and dance and space: Proceedings of the 24th symposium of the ICTM study group on ethnochoreology, Cluj, 2006 | pages 151–152 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2012 | Hidrellez | From field to text and dance and space: Proceedings of the 24th symposium of the ICTM study group on ethnochoreology, Cluj, 2006 | pages 157–160 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2012 | A disputed issue: contemporizing (safeguarding) the ritual căluș (Romania) | Dance, Gender and Meanings: Contemporizing Traditional Dance: Proceedings of the 26th Symposium of the ICTM Study group on Ethnochoreology, Třešť, 2010 | pages 105–116 |
Anca Giurchescu, Mehmet Ocal Ozbiligin, Fahriye Dincar and Jaynie Rabb Aydon | 2012 | Panel - Representations of different realities experienced in the fieldwork carried out in the region of Izmir, Turkey - | From field to text and dance and space : Proceedings of the 24th symposium of the ICTM study group on ethnochoreology | |
Anca Giurchescu | 2014 | Contextual determination of improvisation: A case study of Vlach chain dances of Northeastern Serbia | Abstract submitted to the fourth symposium of the ICTM study group for music and dance in Southeastern Europe | |
Anca Giurchescu | 2014 | Placing the dance in space: norms of the past and present | Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Limerick, 2012 | pages 67–73 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2014 | A short history of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology | Dance, Place, Festival: 27th Symposium of the ICTM Study Group on Ethnochoreology, Limerick, 2012 | pages 297–306 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2014 | Experiencing the Field: Fieldwork Research Theory, Methods and Experience | (Re)Searching the Field: Festschrift in Honour of Egil Bakka | pages 213-226 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2015 | Field research in Svinica/Svinița, a community bridging both shores of the Danube : Comments across four decades | Dance, field research and intercultural perspectives : The Easter customs in the village of Sviniţa | pages 23-46 |
Anca Giurchescu | 2015 | Crossroads and meetings : Prelude György Martin | Acta Ethnographica Hungarica | vol.60, no.1, pages 105-110 |
Margaret H. Beissinger, Speranța Rădulescu and Anca Giurchescu | 2016 | Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music | Europea | |
Anca Giurchescu | 2016 | Enacting tradition: The ora - Event marker of ethnic and cultural identity of the Vlachs settled in Denmark | Von Hora, Doina und Lautaren: Einblicke in die rumänische Musik und Musikwissenschaft | pages 155-165 |
Anca Giurchescu and Speranța Rădulescu | 2016 | Music, dance, performance: A descriptive analysis of manele | Manele in Romania : cultural expression and social meaning in Balkan popular music | vol.21, no.Europea, pages 1-44 |
Anca Giurchescu | Unpublished ;1979 | Dansul în ținutul Pădurenilor | ||
Anca Giurchescu | Unpublished <1976 | Folclor coregrafic din județul Dâmbovița | ||
Anca Giurchescu | Unpublished >1979 | Călușei în Câmpul Pâinii | ||
Anca Giurchescu | Unpublished > 1979 | Hora vlahilor. Rolul tradiției în procesul de adoptare a vlahilor stabiliți în Danemarca |