The Phenomenon of Oleksandr Kositz as Presented by a Warsaw Scholar of Ukrainian Studies: Ołeksandr Koszyc i jego dziennik „Z pieśnią przez świat”, edited by Walentyna Sobol, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2018, 394 pp. Cover Image

Fenomen Ołeksandra Koszyca w ujęciu warszawskiej ukrainistki: Ołeksandr Koszyc i jego dziennik „Z pieśnią przez świat”, red. Walentyna Sobol, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2018, 394 ss.
The Phenomenon of Oleksandr Kositz as Presented by a Warsaw Scholar of Ukrainian Studies: Ołeksandr Koszyc i jego dziennik „Z pieśnią przez świat”, edited by Walentyna Sobol, Wydawnictwa Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego, Warszawa 2018, 394 pp.

Author(s): Alicja Wołodźko-Butkiewicz
Subject(s): Music, Polish Literature, Ukrainian Literature, Cultural Anthropology / Ethnology, Book-Review
Published by: Wydział Lingwistyki Stosowanej Uniwersytetu Warszawskiego
Keywords: Oleksandr Kositz; conductor; composer; ethnologist; diary; national musical culture; creativity;

Summary/Abstract: In the review article, the author writes about Walentyna Sobol’s book Oleksandr Kositz and his diary “With a song around the world”. Prof. Sobol prepared a Polish edition of Oleksandr Kositz’s diary, published for the first time in Canada in the 1950s and then in the 1970s after the death of this composer, writer, and ethnographer, providing it with an introduction, comprehensive footnotes, an extensive bibliography, and an unknown iconographic material – she has, therefore, carried out work far exceeding the scope of the duties of a scientific editor, which is the role she is performing here. This pioneering, in our country, publication, which will surely interest researchers in culture studies, musicologists, literary scholars, as well as ordinary readers who like to listen to Ukrainian songs, was preceded by a research stay in the archives of Oleksandr and Tetiana Kositz at the Ukrainian Cultural and Educational Centere in Winnipeg (Canada), where Oleksandr Kositz (1875–1944) spent the last years of his life and Professor Sobol – in 2015 – several months of her scientific internship.

  • Issue Year: 2019
  • Issue No: 6
  • Page Range: 193-203
  • Page Count: 11
  • Language: Polish