Schools in Setesdal will incorporate traditional music and dance into the curriculum, and those who teach these skills will earn good wages
convention on safeguarding “intangible cultural heritage”, agreed in 2003, requires states to act to preserve whatever is listed within their jurisdiction within six years. “For us, this was an alarm bell,” says Annbjorg Lien, who has the job of reviving folk traditions in the Setesdal municipality., four-line ditties sung in a call-and-response fashion. These are common at weddings and other celebrations. Ms Lien says there is now talk of permitting them in local-council business.
The children seem keen. Given the electronica-like pulse of a typical Setesdal session, it’s easy to see why. But their enthusiasm, and that of the wider population, may also reflect a craving for community, especially after the torments of lockdown. “People want to know who they are, where they’re from, what they’re about. Only a soulful experience can provide that insight,” says Ms Lien, a keen fiddler herself.
This article appeared in the Europe section of the print edition under the headline "Fiddlers of the fjords"
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