Abstract
Music plays an important role in the identification process, or, according to Adelaida Reyes, it can function as an identity marker. In this paper I focus on the role of music in the identification process of the inhabitants of Šumava-a region in south Bohemia, inhabited for centuries mostly by German-speaking citizens before their resettlement after the WWII.
According to my continuous fieldwork, what could be considered as identity by the former German-speaking minority (e.g. themes of songs, connection to the landscape, etc.) in fact proved to be a prevailing border identity which was also transmitted from the old inhabitants to the new ones by music and a common remembering, and appeared to be a type of non-ethnic but locally-based identity.