Songs Intended for a Child and Children’s Songs in the Publications of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić Cover Image

Песме намењене детету и дечје песме у публикацијама Вука Стефановића Караџића
Songs Intended for a Child and Children’s Songs in the Publications of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić

Author(s): Tatjana Vujnović
Subject(s): Customs / Folklore, Serbian Literature
Published by: Институт за књижевност и уметност
Keywords: songs intended for a child;children’s songs;birth rites;poetry collections;ethnography;lexicography;Vuk Stefanović Karadžić;

Summary/Abstract: The paper identifies, brings together and examines the songs printed in the works of Vuk Stefanović Karadžić which adults used to sing to children and the songs which children used to perform among themselves or as participants of a rite. We trace chronologically the presence of these genres in the collections of oral poetry, from the first songbooks (1814, 1815) up to the collection printed after the manuscripts Vuk Karadžić left (1973), with special attention dedicated to the songs, verses and information about the circumstances of a performance, which remains scattered in the ethnographic and lexicographic materials. This approach offers an insight into a rich and diverse corpus of children’s lyric poems and poems sung to children, gathered in Vuk Karadžić’s books, which are then considered in the context of the traditional views on a newborn/a child, on growing–up and upbringing. Also revealed are Karadžić’s opinions on the matters of gathering and publishing these materials, which have largely determined the attitude towards the genres of children’s folklore and folklore intended for children up until now.

  • Issue Year: 48/2016
  • Issue No: 160
  • Page Range: 9-26
  • Page Count: 18
  • Language: Serbian