Collection of songbooks at the Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies RSUH: Typological and genre characteristics
https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2024-7-1-68-82
Abstract
The tradition of keeping songbooks emerged in the late 18th century and was particularly popular in Russia in the 19th and 20th centuries. Notebooks with songs, texts of classical literature, wishes, and messages were maintained by schoolgirls, military personnel, soldiers, prisoners, and various other age and professional social groups.
The Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies of the Russian State University for the Humanities contains several documents composed in the 1930s – 2000s: girls’ albums and songbooks, soldiers’ notebooks, a samizdat (self-publishing) songbook from the parish camp of the Church of St. Cosmas and Damian. The manuscripts reflect the main features inherent in this kind of parafolklore writing. The main place in them is occupied by songs (ballads, romances, pop songs, songs from films, parodies of hits), sententiae, (wishes, counsels, conclusions and other), album stamps, artistic elements (decals, drawings, magazine clippings); in the girls’ notebooks there are also elements with an emphasis on performativity and communication (texts for fortune telling: “chihalki”, “ikalki”).
The article will examine a collection of songbooks: genre composition and characteristics of the repertoire of manuscripts, features of their compilation and design, pragmatics, typological designation of documents.
Supporting agencies: The publication was prepared within the framework of the research work of Russian State University for the Humanities “Song traditions of the 20th – 21st centuries: Poetic structures, biographical discourse and historical narrative” (contest “Student project scientific collectives RSUH”).
About the Author
U. A. Petukhova
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Uliana A. Petukhova,
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, 125047.
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Petukhova U.A. Collection of songbooks at the Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies RSUH: Typological and genre characteristics. Folklore: Structure, Typology, Semiotics. 2024;7(1):68-82. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2658-5294-2024-7-1-68-82
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