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THE MUSIC OF OSKAR KOLBERG

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Dabrowski G.

Etnografia Polska

2004

vol. 48

issue 1-2

37-56

The main achievement of Oskar Kolberg, the eminent Polish ethnographer and folklorist, was his voluminous ethnographic work. That is how he was perceived - as an outstanding author of ethnography. His education, however, was musical. He was also a composer. That is why the author of the article tries to answer the question about the connection between Oskar Kolberg's education and the fact that in the 'crop' of Polish folk culture 'harvested' by him, songs and melodies predominate other items. Search for this plot in the life and research activities of Oskar Kolberg seems interesting, the more so, because he never found approval as a composer. Having made some, not very successful, attempts of 'meeting the taste' of his contemporaries he eventually concentrated on ethnography and that brought him great fame and esteem in the 19th century Poland and in many other countries as well. Why didn't he gain popularity as a composer? To what extent can and should his ethnographic work be defined as a kind of artistic creativity? These are the questions the author asks in the article. He admits that no direct answer is possible to be given now. He simply presents and juxtaposes particular facts from Kolberg's life. This may not only suggest certain answers but also allows for the analysis of the mechanisms of the 19th century cultural convention. The latter could be one of the clues to understanding the musical and ethnographic production of Oskar Kolberg.

Kazimierz Moszyński i Józef Obrębski: nauczyciel i uczeń

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Engelking A.

Lud

2012

vol. 96

139-155

The article, based on archival sources, discusses the relations between Józef Obrębski and his first teacher, Kazimierz Moszyński. The author presents facts which describe their contacts in 1926-1936 and shows how Obrębski, who was considered Moszyński’s most able student, learnt study and research methods, the skills and tools of a field ethnographer, the foundations of ethnological thinking and intellectual freedom. Obrębski studied ethnography and ethnology in 1925-1929 at the School of Slavonic Studies of the Jagiellonian University. While a student of Moszyński, he was also his assistant who contributed to editorial work and who helped collect field materials. In 1927-1934 the teacher and his student explored the Balkans. In 1930 Obrębski was awarded his master’s degree on the basis of the thesis entitled Rolnictwo ludowe wschodniej części półwyspu Bałkańskiego [Folk agriculture in the eastern part of the Balkan Peninsula]. Some of Obrębski’s materials were subsequently included in the first volume of Moszyński’s Kultura ludowa Słowian [Folk culture of Slavs]. In 1930 Obrębski went to London where he was a student of Bronisław Malinowski at the London School of Economics; in January 1934 he was awarded his doctoral degree in social anthropology. He would not have been granted the scholarship to study in London had it not been for the efforts made by Moszyński – records reveal that Moszyński highly valued Obrębski and greatly helped him to pursue his scholarly career. Obrębski, in turn, although with time he became more reserved about Moszyński’s scientific position, never stopped to respect his master. In his later works, mainly in ethnosociological studies of the Polesie region, he drew from the achievements and inspirations of his former teacher. His subsequent scientific career developed and completed what he learnt from Moszyński.

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Kazimierz Moszyński i Józef Obrębski: nauczyciel i uczeń