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The paper focuses on the poetic works of Teodor Trayanov in parallel with Bulgarian and West European symbolism. This study is a part of the first and, for the time being, only Doctoral thesis on the work of that unjustly forgotten poet. Some perfectly new ideas are suggested on the uniqueness of Trayanov's symbolism. Of greatest significance among these is the suggestion that Trayanov had better be labelled a Neo-Romantic than a straightforward symbolist, having in mind the coherence of that tradition in Austria.
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This paper explores and analyzes the most important anthropogeographic characteristics of the development of the municipality of Srebrenica until the mid-1990s, especially changes in the economic and educational structure of the municipal population. Particular attention was paid to the territorial distribution, that is, the representation of certain Bosniak families in the settlements of the municipality, as well as the number of households and the total number of persons per family. In addition, the basic demographic losses of Bosniak families in the Srebrenica municipality during the aggression against the independent state of Bosnia and Herzegovina, 1992-1995, are presented. and the massacres of Bosniak men after the occupation of the so-called UN Srebrenica Safe Zone, July 1995. Data on the number of widows and orphaned children as a result of the mass killing of Bosniak men during aggression and genocide were analyzed and presented by families.
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The paper gives priority to the importance of cultural and historical heritage as a source of knowledge for any scientific research - under which dominant historiographical research is most often too simplistic. This type of sources on which historical truth is based has not been given adequate attention during and after the aggression against Bosnia and Herzegovina. Such non-civilizational behaviors (authorities of all kinds and levels, institutions of culture and science, political centers of power, etc.) are contrary not only to the provisions of international, but also to the fragmented, legislation of Bosnia and Herzegovina. For the scientific interpretation of the causes and motives of the war in Bosnia and Herzegovina (1992-1995), official documents of civilian and military authorities directly or indirectly involved in war events, committing numerous war crimes and genocide crimes, are fundamental sources for the historical elaboration of centuries-old hegemonic and aggressive Great Serbian policies towards Bosnia and Herzegovina, especially towards Bosniaks as the largest indigenous people. All other sources of information are also of great importance: testimonies of event participants, mass graves of victims, photos and videos of individuals, confessions of perpetrators of war crimes, videos and written records of the enormous suffering of cultural and historical heritage - especially those of Probosnian and Bosniak provenance , as well as all other types of evidence that are only partially preserved and partly stored in institutions of culture and science. This paper points to the need to protect, collect, preserve and use all sources of knowledge about war events, especially war crimes committed, as a first-class obligation of the State of Bosnia and Herzegovina and all its administrative levels of government, academic and cultural and scientific institutions, respectively, each of her loyal citizens, because it is, among other things, their civilizing duty and obligation.
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The Museum in Tuzla was founded in 1947 as the Museum of National Liberation Struggle. The activity of the Museum took place in the narrow and wide area of Tuzla, and covered the period of the revolution from 1941 to 1945. In 1950, the Museum was declared native, after which the activity of the Museum expanded to collect material, not only from the period of the people's revolution, but also in the field of archeology and ethnology. In 1962, with the decision of the Tuzla District Assembly and with its funding, the Museum continued to operate as the Museum of Eastern Bosnia in Tuzla. The Historical Division of the Museum of Eastern Bosnia Tuzla collects, researches, preserves and presents historical material. This material is divided into periods: Ottoman period, Austro-Hungarian period, period between two world wars, labor movement, World War II - period of national liberation struggle, socialist construction, period from 1992 - Defensive - liberation war 1992 - 1995. A total of 9,764 exhibits were recorded in the history department's records. In addition to the three-dimensional material (weapons, tools, uniforms, decorations and other items), the department has a large number of photographs, historical maps and documents. One of the main activities of the historical department of the Museum of Eastern Bosnia Tuzla is the organization of exhibitions.
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U kulturno-historijskom nasljeđu na određenom području spadaju, između ostalog, i gradine, stećci (i nekropole), mezarja, džamije, vodenice i tradicionalna narodna arhitektura. Do devedesetih godina XX stoljeća na području Tuzlanskog kantona pa tako i u općini Živinice bio je mali broj tekstova posvećeno ovom problemu a još manje je bilo štampanih knjiga. No, danas je situacija sasvim drugačija. Sve je veći broj onih koji se zanima za ovaj vid istraživanja kako na općini Živinice tako i šire.
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Zavod za zaštitu i korištenje kulturno-historijskog i prirodnog nslijeđa Tuzlanskog kantona je u proteklih nekoliko godina organizovao nekoliko naučnih skupova i okruglih stolova o naslijeđu na području Tuzlanskog kantona i sjeveroistočne Bosne. Zadnji takav skup je Zavod organizovao 14. 12. 2011. godine u Bijeljini.
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The theme of Macedonia occupies an important place in Bulgarian literature. Poems, short stories, novels, dramas, essays, travelogues are devoted to it. Suffice it to mention the names of writers such as Ivan Vazov, Peyo Yavorov, Anton Strashimirov or Dimitar Talev. Interest in the subject, especially in the lyrics, is strongly influenced by the particular historical situation (uprisings, wars, and other extreme events). At the same time, writers born in Macedonia such as Simeon Radev, Aleksandar Balabanov, Atanas Dalchev and others play a significant role in Bulgarian literature and literary criticism. The article presents these two aspects. It shows the specifics of reflecting the topic in particular historical periods. Emphasis is placed on literary facts from the period between 1878 and 1944, the time when the theme of Macedonia was most authentic.
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The article is about the memoir book by the Bulgarian poet Yavorov – Haidushki kopneniya (Haidouk Longings). It is placed in a broad cultural context – the struggle for Macedoniaʼs liberation and the resonance and journalistic activity around these events in Bulgaria. Yavorovʼs book is not a veritable memoir, because it has a powerful lyrical stream. On the other hand, the influence of the novel genre is quite strong in it. The article analyzes important compositional features of this text. They are interesting because when Yavorovʼs memoirs first appeared in the periodicals, they were of one kind, which changed after they were assembled and organized as parts of a single text (Haidushki kopneniya).
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The 20th anniversary of the NATO campaign in Kosovo, which led to the beginning of a long process of state-building, was recently commemorated. Yet it is worth recalling what led to the campaign and understanding the lessons of its aftermath which are very much relevant today.
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Information aggressors, especially the Russian Federation, are not “reinventing the wheel”. They use existing mechanisms. Journalists and the media, regardless of the provenance, are the first on the “information front” in the war over people’s hearts and minds. They have a choice: ignore or refute this fact or accept their role as a key element in state security and the information space.
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Review of: Andrei Soldatov and Irina Borogan, “The Compatriots. The Brutal and Chaotic History of Russia’s Exiles, Émigrés, and Agents Abroad.”, Publisher: Public Affairs, New York, 2019. Review by: Luke Harding
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Review of: „Ukraine in Histories and Stories: Essays by Ukrainian Intellectuals.” Edited by Volodymyr Yermolenko. Publisher: Internews Ukraine / Ukraine World, Kyiv: 2019. Review by: Margarita Novikova
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The purpose of my paper is to reveal the main features of the mystery genre in the European musical culture of the 19th and the 20th century on the basis of the genre features established in the Antiquity and the Middle Ages.The mystery play genre, as we know, in essence means the firm unity of certain stable features. The complexity of those features consists of two specific elements—religion and social, and a general one—the model of the world for a certain epoch.If in the mysteries of Ancient civilizations and the Middle Ages, the aforementioned components operated as a firm unity of inseparable elements; later, in the period after the “new times”, especially at the end of the 19th century and in the 20th century, the stable elements were disintegrated from each other. This process is discussed on the examples of the following operas:• The common religion and ethical model—Wagner’s Parsifal;• The code of moral rules and principles in the social context—Schoenberg’s Moses und Aron;• The explication of Thomistic ideas in the modern world—Messiaen’s Saint François d’Assise.What is outlined is the unity of necessary components of the genre of the mystery play: multidimensional sources of libretto; a mission of the main hero; the author’s interpretation of the mystery; the abundance of ritual scenes; the relationship between the internal and externaldramaturgical processes; synthesis of the different theatrical genres; static dramaturgy. All of these features suggest a specific type of musical main mystic spheres: divine, terrestrial and demonic. Consequently, the dramaturgy of opera staging has three levels of activity: superficial, inner and upon time.
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The article discusses the issue of Jewish musicians’ identity by the example of prewar Galician artists. It emphasizes the role of social and political divisions within Jewish community and the impact of assimilation, liberalism, socialism and Zionism on the musical life of Jews in Galicia. Then, it discusses their influence on individual musicians like: Bronisław Gimpel, Bronisław Huberman, Józef Koffler, Stanisław Lipski, Wilhelm Mantel, Paweł Anhalt, Stefan Schleichkorn, Henryk Guensberg, Józef Neger, Henryk Apte, Izaak Lust, Zofia Lissa, Mordechaj Gebirtig, Nachum Sternheim and musicians active on the stage of popular music. Its aim is to encourage musicologists to reconsider the issue of prewar Jewish musicians’ identity and to use findings of historians and sociologists in musicological literature. They indicate rather complexity, not unilaterality, of the self-identification of Jews in diaspora. Understanding of the Jewish musicians’ work conditions allows to discover the hidden meaning of their actions.
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The aim of this article is to interpret songs by Gabriel Fauré, Claude Debussy, Maurice Ravel and a less-known composer—Irena Wieniawska (1879−1932), based on the same poems by Paul Verlaine. In the first part of this paper, the relationships between Wieniawska, Fauré, Debussy, Ravel and Verlaine are subsequently described. Then, the author makes a comparison between selected songs by French composers and Madame Poldowski, indicating main similarities and differences. The final part consists of some remarks related to the fact that Wieniawska fulfills features of the French mélodie very strictly. This is why her songs seem to be more traditional, not as allusive and sophisticated as Debussy’s or Ravel’s vocal works.
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The main aim of this paper is to examine the discourse on Frédéric Chopin that took place in Poland in 1949, when the 100th anniversary of his birth coincided with the culmination of the socialist realist propaganda in the field of Polish culture. The discourse, initiated and moderated under effective surveillance of the Polish People’s Republic’s government, was filled with communist ideology. The authorities aimed at creating a sense of communion in the Polish nation, therefore they undertook numerous actions in the area of cultivating memory of Chopin and reception of his works. The composer was used as a banner under which the culture of socialist realism was to be consolidated. Chopin was presented by the narrators in the socialist realist context in various dimensions.“Deep humanism”, “truth”, “optimism”, “sincerity” and “democratic features” of Chopin’s music were the crucial notions used by them. Chopin was depicted, among others, as a revolutionist and a prophet of triumph of communism. The oeuvre of Chopin was said to bring together “fraternal countries and nations”, Polish People’s Republic and Soviet Union, while being simultaneously a crucial element of class conflict. The authorities had a tendency to overemphasize folk roots of his compositions, thus among musical genres composed by Chopin the importance of Mazurka was exaggerated. Other genres without such strong folk connotations, as sonatas, ballades and scherzos, were marginalized in the discourse.
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