A dissertation by Zygmunt Gloger Czy lud polski jeszcze śpiewa? [Does the Polish folk still sing?] (1905) a question about understanding of tradition, community and good remembrance Cover Image

A dissertation by Zygmunt Gloger Czy lud polski jeszcze śpiewa? [Does the Polish folk still sing?] (1905) a question about understanding of tradition, community and good remembrance
A dissertation by Zygmunt Gloger Czy lud polski jeszcze śpiewa? [Does the Polish folk still sing?] (1905) a question about understanding of tradition, community and good remembrance

Author(s): Anna Józefowicz
Subject(s): Sociology
Published by: Uniwersytet Adama Mickiewicza
Keywords: Zygmunt Gloger; song; folk; tradition; Slavic; community; patriotism

Summary/Abstract: The question contained in the title of the dissertation of thegreat folklore, researcher of the past, a lover of sightseeingtrips – Zygmunt Gloger Czy lud polski jeszcze śpiewa?[Does the Polish folk still sing?] was asked, far more thana hundred years ago. It was put to Gloger by a French musicianand journalist who was staying in Poland in 1901to celebrate the opening of the Warsaw Philharmonic.He asked this way, because he was fascinated with musicpieces he had heard on the stage, based “on beautiful folkmotifs”.Small size, because only 24-page Gloger’s dissertation issuedin 1905 is an attempt to answer the problem raisedin the title.Above all, the dissertation is an expression of Gloger’sregret over the changes that took place in contemporaryculture, namely forgetting the role of the song for the Slavcommunity. This is way the author knew the achievementsof this community, he devoted his whole life tosaving them, he could not understand how contemporaryintelligentsia did not see the need for protection, as hedescribed it “our ancient, native and indigenously Slavicnationalsong and music”. This text is an attempt to analyzeGloger’s essay Czy lud polski jeszcze śpiewa? [Doesthe Polish folk still sing?], extracting and developing themain theses contained in it, as well as noticing their valuetoday, not forgetting the circumstances of creating the textover 100 years ago.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 2
  • Page Range: 149-162
  • Page Count: 14
  • Language: English