Fotografie jako ikonografický pramen pro studium lidové hudby

• Authors: Jan Blahůšek

Title variants

EN

Photography as an iconographic source for study of folk music

• Languages of publication: CS

Abstracts

EN

Iconographic sources are very important for the study of the historical development of the folk music. They require a specific methodology. the musical science and ethnomusicology perceive musical iconography as an indipendent discipline. From the point of view of Czech musicology, it is necessary to acknowledge that ethnomusicology has not yet fully developed in our milieu, although it is possible to monitor some significant activities in this field abroad already in the second half of the 20th century. The development of this discipline leads, of course, to generalization of the themes being investigated, therefore it is better to consider nowadays this musicological discipline as musical iconology: While iconography deals “just” with preservation of a set of iconograms, their cataloguing, which is narrowed down to the outer description of the product, it means to the detection of author, provenance, name, technique, dimensions, dating, deposition, respectively to some other comments such as the place where the iconogram has been published or described, iconography goes further towards deeper analysis of meaning of the work.

EN

In the case of the research interest in the musical instruments and folk music, the iconological research must be based on such historical iconograms, which document the folk culture in any way and then select relevant evidence from such a whole. It is always necessary to apply a critical perspective and to verify the depicted information. Some types of iconograms facilitate this perspective to some extent. Their documentary value may be great when the depicted situation is not stylized. We mean above all the photographic sources from the second half of the 19th and the first half of the 20th century. As this study states by means of a commented specification, already at that time there was a considerable interest in documentation of folk culture in the area of Central Europe. And so was it in the Czech lands. Thanks to it, there are preserved source documents which may thus become an object of the musical-iconological research.

Keywords

EN

iconography; iconology; ethnomusicology; photography; pictorial sources

Discipline

• ETHNOLOGY: ETHNOLOGY

• Publisher: Czech Ethnological Society
• Journal: Národopisný věstník
• Year: 2009
• Volume: 26_(68)
• Issue: 1
• Pages: 63-71
• Document type: ARTICLE

Contributors

author

Jan Blahůšek

• Česká národopisná společnost, z. s., Národní třída 3, 117 20 Praha 1, Czech Republic