Egyptian Society for Folk Traditions

Authority issued a special book for the National Archive of folklore

Seventh Day - Date 25/09/2010 - Departement Culture - page - by Suleiman victory

The General Authority of the book the latest issue of the Journal of Popular Arts of the National Archives of folklore, and offered to some of the topics that the archive documenting such traditional costume, ceremonies, folk music, folk dance, Alhawwadat and some traditions of history.
Says Dr. Nabil Bahgat professor of arts at Helwan University and head of the "band and flash play came this number to mark the passage of three years to establish Archive, which was founded by Dr. Assad Nadim and the late Safwat Kamal and Dr. Ahmed marina, a group of professors who specialize in branches traditions popular, he founded the National Archives of Folklore in 2007 as a scientific academy, take charge of collection of popular traditions, and documented and classified and made available to scholars and creators.
the The division of labor on four axes; popular literature is divided into storytelling and the songs and walk, proverbs and legends, Second Section material culture Calfnon and crafts, architecture, fashion, etc., and the third section customs and folk beliefs, knowledge and ceremonies, etc., and Section IV performing arts of music and dance, games and drama popular .. Etc.
the He Bahgat for this purpose has been training a group of collectors number reached 200 trainees passed the final tests, of whom 60 people to be able to collect and document traditions vocabulary different, and the Archive during that period the work of 2393 field trip resulted in the collection and documentation of 2730 hours was adopted in 2241 an hour as documentaries, as well as the number 745 was collected voice clock 572 was adopted, as well as have been collected more than 130,000 topics photo of different traditions.
In celebration of archives and those who support it allocated the Egyptian General Book a recent issue of the Journal of Popular Arts for the National Archive of folklore to stand on Scientific done done by professors specialize to save memory Egyptian.
It is worth mentioning that the idea of ??establishing an archive a National Folk Art Egyptian, according to a term that was common in the fifties of the last century, as well as the establishment of the Institute of Scientific specialist based on the preparation of scientific personnel specialized in folk arts and traditions popular, Ki-rise tasks of collection and documentation, classification and study is the dream of Pioneer: SZ Alqlmaoy Abdul Hamid Younis, Ahmed Roshdy favor.
The beginning was in 1957 is to create a center of folk art and the Committee on folk arts of the Supreme Council for the Arts and Social Sciences, and the establishment of this center has been active movement gathering traditions popular Thothegaha and try to be classified, but the dream theme is the creation of the archive based on the documentation of popular memory and preservation has yet to materialize .
In order to promote the functions of collection, documentation, classification and study is the dream of Pioneer: SZ Alqlmaoy and Abdul Hamid Younis, Ahmed Roushdy favor, starting in 1957 is to create a center of folk art and the Committee on folk arts of the Supreme Council for the Arts and Social Sciences, and the establishment of this center has been active movement gathering traditions popular Thothegaha and try to be classified, but the dream theme is the creation of the archive is based on the popular memory documenting and maintaining them has not yet been achieved.
With the beginning of this century - the twenty-first - established the Egyptian Society of Folk Arts (2001) as a civil association includes Mahtmwen Palmothorat the People's Assembly and put a key objective of its goals - and perhaps the first objectives - to work towards Archive / dream. And was able togetherness efforts to obtain a grant from the Arab Fund for Economic and Social Development, and the approval of the Minister of Culture on the allocation of part of the house Alkhrzacy and next door to the house Suhaimi (Historic Cairo) to be the headquarters for the establishment of the archive The Journal of Popular Arts record notarial him and models which have been collected and documented.