Song Genres in Traditional Musical Culture in Slovakia. Models of Genre Synthesis in Ethnomusicology Cover Image

Piesňové žánre v tradičnej hudobnej kultúre na Slovensku. Modely žánrových syntéz v etnomuzikológii
Song Genres in Traditional Musical Culture in Slovakia. Models of Genre Synthesis in Ethnomusicology

Author(s): Hana Urbancová
Subject(s): Cultural history, Music, Ethnohistory, Local History / Microhistory, History of Art
Published by: Ústav hudobnej vedy Slovenskej akadémie vied
Keywords: traditional song culture; genre; history of research; interdisciplinary approach; song structure; social function; genre synthesis; hay-making songs; Marian legends; Christmas carols; Midsummer songs

Summary/Abstract: Systematic study of traditional song culture, using the category of song genre, has been conducted in Slovakia during the last two decades in particular and has opened methodological paths towards the contextual study of song structure. During this period soundings in depth were conducted on selected song groups, and the theoretical premises of genre research were tested. Resulting from both these lines of research, there has been a refi nement of analytic procedures and interpretative models, which culminated in the conception of genre syntheses. Th e genre syntheses provide a complex view of the song as a unity of music (tune), text and social function. Th ey are aimed at the mapping of genre specifi cities (features which distinguish the given song genre from the context of the others), and at the same time they interpret these features in wider socio-cultural, regional and historical-evolutionary connections.

  • Issue Year: 2/2011
  • Issue No: 1
  • Page Range: 5-37
  • Page Count: 33
  • Language: Slovak