Jozef Kresánek ako etnomuzikológ
Jozef Kresánek as Ethnomusicologist

Summary/Abstract: Jozef Kresánek (1913–1986) is regarded as a founding personality of Slovak ethnomusicology. His individual profile is revealed in the light of the essential activities which define the ethnomusicologist’s activity: from field and archival research, through work with the material, to scholarly reflection. In terms of researching Slovak folk music, his individual image corresponds with the profile of the European musical folklorist of the first half of the 20th century. Kresánek, however, outgrows this profile insofar as he managed to integrate folk music into wider contexts of historical development, style, genre, and aesthetic theory. Kresánek’s ethnomusicological work was directed towards the comprehension of “Slovak folk musical thinking”. In his musicological work as a whole, however, this was only a preparatory stage for the formulation of a universalist concept of musical thinking. Within this concept folk music too had an important part to play, viewed from the perspective of an ethnomusicologist who had emerged from the European tradition of this discipline.

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