Is There a Day?! For Them… and for Us (About Koco Racin’s Poetry and Tose Proeski’s Music) Cover Image

ИМА ЛИ ДЕН?! …ЗА НИВ…И ЗА НАС (За поезијата на Кочо Рацин и музиката на Тоше Проески)
Is There a Day?! For Them… and for Us (About Koco Racin’s Poetry and Tose Proeski’s Music)

Author(s): Lusi Karanikolova-Chochorovska
Subject(s): Music, Poetry, Macedonian Literature
Published by: Институт за македонска литература
Keywords: poetry; music; "Day for Us;" intimate motive; universal parameters

Summary/Abstract: In this article, in the name of music and poetry, an attempt is made to link the poetry of the founder of modern Macedonian literature, Kocho Racin and the music of wonderful and transcendent Macedonian musician Tose Proeski. Touch point are verses from Racin’s "Earning" and Tose’s composition "Is there a day for us?", thanks to which an opportunity is open for comparison in terms of intimate and universal parameters which appear in both songs, which in turn ensures their "life" through time. The analysis confirms that the time in music and literature, as time arts, can stop, but also can be everlasting-until the end of time! The approach towards these two songs, once again, confirms Racin’s exquisite poetic sensibility and extraordinary interpretation of "the guy with voice of an angel" who succeeded to breath soul into everything he sang. The analysis imposes a dilemma: "Is there a day for us" in these our Macedonian late-transition times when we all strive towards integration into global processes of cultural nations in Europe and worldwide.

  • Issue Year: 2011
  • Issue No: 9
  • Page Range: 115-121
  • Page Count: 7
  • Language: Macedonian