AUTHORS

INTRODUCTION

I. SOCIOCULTURAL REALITY AND PRESENT-DAY BERTSOLARITZA

1. The environment in which bertsolaritza finds itself: the basque-speaking (euskaldun) community

2. Sociocultural relevance of bertsolaritza within this basque-speaking community

3. Bertsolaritza today

3.1. Spectacle or public performance

3.2. Contests and championships

3.3. Group entertainment at an informal level: bertsolaritza workshops or schools

3.4. Bertsolaritza: its content and its practice in statutory education

3.5. Sub-genre in the media

II. ACHIEVING A BALANCE AMONGST THE CHALLENGES FACING BERTSOLARITZA: KEYS TO THE CREATIVITY OF THE TRADITION

III. THE PROCESS OF CREATING IMPROVISED BERTSOS

IV. PROPOSALS FOR A THEORETICAL FRAMEWORK

V. GLOSSARY

3 Bertsolaritza today

Bertsolaritza is currently developing in a number of manners and in various fields. We will present an overall perspective of them in order to get a better idea of it as a current sociocultural phenomenon. Firstly, we can divide present-day bertsolaritza into five principal manifestations.