Iryna DOVHALIUK. To the history of Filaret Kolessa’s expedition to Naddniprians’ka Ukraine.
In the summer of 2008 it was one hundred
years after Filaret Kolessa made the expedition to
Myrhorod for recording kobzar and lyre player repertoire with
phonographic rollers. The article deals with the history of
preparing, realization and results of this considerable
project made by Ukrainian intellectuals at the beginning of
the 20th century. The survey focuses on contribution of scholars
who had active position in preserving traditional kobzar
and lyre player repertoire for descendants, specifically
Filaret Kolessa, Lesia Ukrainka, Klyment Kvitka and Opanas Slastion.
Key words: folklore studies expedition, dumas, phonographing, kobzar and
lyre player repertoire, collection of phonographic
rollers, Filaret Kolessa, Opanas Slastion, Klyment Kvitka,
Lesia Ukrainka.
Non-typical genres of Ukrainian duma epos
such as historical dumas-songs, dumas-parodies, new dumas
of the 20th century are analyzed. Appearance and functioning
of these genres testify to considerable internal potential of
duma tradition, specific rules of duma functioning. These
rules enabled the origin of the other similar to duma
genres as well as transformation of some formal elements of duma epos but they
didn’t cause the decay of classic form of dumas.
Key words: historical songs, dumas-parodies, new dumas, famine,
Sorochyntsi, kobzar.
Vasyl’ IVASHKIV. Panteleymon Kulish’s "Ukrainian Folk Legends": the question of its history".
The article explores peculiarities of
Panteleymon Kulish’s (1819-1897) folkloristic activity in
the 1840-ies, the result of which was a volume of folk prose "Ukrainian Folk
Legends" published in 1847 and at the very time prohibited and
confiscated (it was issued only in 1893). By using
numerous archive materials and correspondence the author
has managed to be more convincing in describing specific features of Kulish’s
work as a folklorist as well as analyzing his editions of folk-poetic
texts.
Key words: Panteleymon Kulish, a legend, a traditional story, a
historical person in folklore, a folk narrator.
Olesia NAUMOVS’KA. Mykhaylo Drahomanov as the compiler and researcher of folk prose pieces.
The article focuses on little-known facts
in scholarly biography of Mykhailo Drahomanov. Some
peculiarities of scholar’s methodology are analyzed. Folklore
psychological component separated by M. Drahomanov is accented.
Key word: folklore studies, folk prose, genre features, historical and
regional peculiarities of folklore works, tale and non-tale
material.
Olena IVANOVS’KA. Functional-contextual school in folklore studies.
Scientific concepts of native and foreign
scholars on the matter of usage of sociological,
psychological, culture studying methods in researching folklore text are
reviewed. Scholars’ reception of folklore studies subject field
is represented as well. Vitality of using of integral
scholarly approaches when enlisting functional-contextual,
structural-semiotic scientific researching methods is argued.
Key words: folklore text, context, function, semantics, subjectivity.
Literary-oriented model of folklore text was dominant in
Ukrainian folklore studies for a long time. This was
reflected by the folklore theory and also prevented to notice
the difference between the oral folklore text and written
literary one. Performanceoriented studies of folklore
stress on the role of context and performers behavior in the
process of textmaking. This is the possibility to change a lot
of stereotypes in the folklore theory, field practice and
edition.
Key words: text, context, performance, recording, documentation, edition.
The article mainly focuses on evolution of reception of
folklore as organic wordsound system of national
worldview (Oleksandr Potebnia). Filaret Kolessa’s folklore
researches in this field as well as Mykhailo Grushevskyy’s
accent on its value for perception of historical
development of folklore are considered.
Key words: phonomorphology, phonostylistics, phonological analysis,
phonetic peculiarities, rhythm-melodics, phonosubstential
unity, “rhythmical value”, parallelism, ethnomusicology.
The survey deals with one of variety of modern methodology
such as integrative (interdisciplinary) approaches in
studying of traditional folk magic culture. It is emphasized
on effect of new interdisciplinary methodology/strategy that
enables to include researching of individuality of
tradition bearer, his/her psycho-mental characteristics
into scientific context. These integrative studies contribute to more
effectiveness in both researching of the phenomenon of
traditional magic practice and bearers of this tradition.
These methods will help to examine the folk traditional culture relics that are
still saving their connection with the nature, the Universe and
reflect archetypical conscience of our ancestors.
Key words: innovative methodology, traditional magic rite complexes,
incantation tradition, magic and mystic sphere of folk
tradition, psychophysiology of human being,
monodisciplinary researches, interdisciplinary (integrative) approach, many
aspects of folklore studies textology, social and
cultural contexts.
Peculiarities of existence of political anecdote are
analyzed. It is accented on depending of its appearance,
content, functionality on concrete historical facts such as
persons, events, social and political phenomena that trouble
society. Some peculiarities of fixation and publishing of
the genre are also underlined, especially the need of
documenting of information about genetic base of substance and idea of anecdote,
its chrono-topical features, speech context of
realization. Scholarly publications of political anecdote
have to include the material that involves the memory mechanism.
Key words: political anecdote, contextual background, fixation,
publication.
Ol’ha YAKOVLIEVA. Analysis of folklore symbols: to the question of choosing methods.
The survey deals with the question of researching symbols
in Ukrainian family rites. Modern stage of studying the
problem expects 1) analysis of folklore texts from the
position of new paradigm in linguistics and 2) reproduction of the united system
of rite symbols. Rite is considered on the
interdisciplinary level as the semiotic text in the
aspect of reconstruction of social concepts that are preserved in language.
Key words: system, symbol verbal, objective, actional, rite, scientific
paradigm, concept
Andriy VOVCHAK. On the way to creating of Ukrainian folklore archive.
Conceptual scientific achievements and intentions of
Folklore Studies department at Ivan Franko National
University in L’viv in the field of documenting folklore facts
according to its main stages (fixation, transcription, archiving)
are considered. Such modern tendencies of folklore
archiving as complexity of fixating and deponing of
folklore tradition, transition to electronic forms and formats of archive
preservation and systematization of cultural information,
creating possibilities for free access to archived folk
cultural heritage in Internet are emphasized.
Key words: folklore, documenting, fixation, transcription, archiving,
folklore archive, Folklore Studies department.
Musical Ethnology at Mykola Lysenko National Musical
Academy in L’viv (PSRLME) has one of the biggest
collection of music folklore records. Archive workers
continue to improve methods of after-expedition recording and overworking of
field materials. These methods were introduced by Volodymyr
Hoshovs’kyy and
Bohdan Lukaniuk. Perspectives of PSRLME Archive are full transforming archive
founds into digital form and integration of the institution into
the world community of folk music Internet-archives.
Key words: ethnomusicological archive, music folklore, audiorecord,
concepts of archiving, Volodymyr Hoshovs’kyy, Bohdan
Lukaniuk.
Filaret KOLESSA. A survey of Ukrainian folk poetry.
Òànasiy KOLOTYLO (1952–2009) [Necrology].