Zvukové zápisy hudobného folklóru Ukrajincov východného Slovenska a Zakarpatskej Ukrajiny z rokov 1929 a 1935

Abstract

Already in the last decade of the 19th century, experiments with sound recording technology for linguistic and folkloristic purposes were underway. Several types of phonographs were installed at the Academy of Sciences in Vienna, which were field-tested by linguists and ethnomusicologists (such as Béla Bartók, Filater Kolessa and others). The Phonographic Institute was founded in Vienna, which intensified its activities especially during the First World War. Ivan Pankevych, who lived in Carpathian Ukraine from 1920 to 1939, recorded folk literature from Ukrainian prisoners in Austrian camps. At the 1st Conference of Slavic Philologists in Prague in the summer of 1929, he presented a paper entitled "Phonographs in the Service of Linguistics". In September 1929, on behalf of the Czech Academy of Sciences, he brought 13 folk storytellers and singers from Carpathian Ukraine and Ukrainian localities in eastern Slovakia to Prague, from whom 13 excerpts from folk prose, 20 folk songs, and four descriptions of customs were recorded on a recording device from the French company Pathé.
In November 1935, at the initiative of I. Pankevych, the Prague Radio Magazine recorded 80 folk songs, 36 musical compositions and four separate dance melodies from six folklore groups (from Rakhiv, Neresnytsia, Imstychev, Vyshny Verecky, Volosyanka and Tuiia Remeta) in Uzhhorod. During these events, 28 double-sided gramophone records were produced, which the family of Ivan Pankevych dedicated to the author of this article after his death. These are the oldest preserved folklore recordings of Ukrainians from the former Carpathian Ukraine and Eastern Slovakia, which form an original anthology. The author proposes publishing this anthology in printed form with an audio recording.