Sacred Folk Songs and the Slovenian Immigrant Community in Switzerland

Abstract

The article presents the role of sacred folk songs in the liturgy of the Slovenian Catholic Mission in Switzerland. It presents active singing as local ethnic cultural forms that have been transmitted from the “original homeland” and serve to create temporal and local continuity in the diasporic Slovenian Catholic community in Switzerland.

Keywords

• singing
• sacred folk songs
• slovenian immigrants
• slovenian catholic community
• switzerland