The first volume in this series presents the folklore genre of military songs, which in terms of content can also be classified as love songs with a young man as the lyric protagonist. Songs presents all the aspect of soldiers life, from recruting till the consequences of soldiers activities. In addition to military songs, it also presents the canonized tradition of thematizing wars and the presence of soldiers in them within the broader Slovenian folksong tradition, and the collective and individual memory of soldiers that either created or sang these songs.
COBISS.SI-ID: 267528960
The author notes that new, more complex researches of connections between animals, nature and connections to humans are needed in Slovenian and European folklore, literature and culture studies, due to the new ecological and ethical findings in the wider social and cultural environment and changing order of the world, which has moved the focus from anthropocentrism into ecocentrism. The discussion builds upon various theoretical discourses, new concepts and multidisciplinary knowledge, to create the foundations, guidelines and directions for the new academic discipline of zoofolkloristics. Furthermore, new theoretical and analytical discourses should enable zoofolkloristics to provide an insight into changes in human attitudes to animals, in both folklore and within traditional and contemporary ritual practices, or their redefinition, and at the same time exert influence upon the legal safety of non-human subjectivities.
COBISS.SI-ID: 38587949
The object of the scientific monograph is the transformation of Slovenian songs written in the 2nd half of 19th century to the space of popular (folklorized) song repertoire. It deals with the historical period when the Slovenian national identity was founded; the vocal tradition had an important constitutional role that reveals the same song repertoire to be popular still nowadays. The monograph defines different factors that affected popularization, for example school and other song books, concert and other cultural and political presentations. The analytic part deals with selected folklorized songs, separated from the contextual interpretation. The comparative musicological analysis of selected parameters reveals those characteristics that explain principles of traditional vocal music and phenomena such as melodic and rhythmic variability and polimetric structures.
COBISS.SI-ID: 242950656
The volume Na poti v Kamnik (On the Way to Kamnik) is an ethnological and folklore study presenting the life and folk creativity of the wider Kamnik area from the end of the eighteenth century to the present. It is based on extensive archival material, thorough fieldwork, and theoretical reflections. The main research focus is on the relationship between the town and the countryside: how the countryside has changed in contact with the town, and how the town changed when its residents used rural folk culture to express their independent ethnic identity. The study features many new findings in terms of both the life it discusses and song creativity. It uses songs, including ones created in the town, to reveal various social relationships, thereby also shedding light on certain historical processes. The main research thread is a mocking song about the Kamnik burghers which portrayed the stereotypes and the processes of nationalisation of folk culture. Within these frameworks, the study draws attention to the background of strong social conflicts in the WWII and in the postwar period.
COBISS.SI-ID: 282481664
Monograph You are the guardians of the border portrays the factors and processes that influenced the national identification of the peasant inhabitants of the Goriška Brda in the 19th century. In addition to the use of the Slovenian language at school and in the church and choosing a Slovene language on the census, national activists especially encouraged the people of Brda to express identification with the singing of Slovenian "folk" songs. That is why they promoted the performance of choirs and tried to exterminate the singing of non-Slovene songs - especially Friulian and Italian. The singing activity outside the framework of societies was significantly influenced by the way of life of the population, which was strongly marked by the system of tenant farming. The book presents the research of folk songs in the Goriška Brda, among which had a special place short songs with strong dialect features, which in the everyday life of the inhabitants complemented the repertoire of folk and religious songs, known in the wider Slovene territory. The book won a price by Slovenian Research Agency 2017.
COBISS.SI-ID: 293440256
The book is devoted to the morphological and structural analyses of štajeriš, which are combined with anthropological perspective of research in social contexts. The štajeriš as a well-known dance among Slovenians in the 18th and the 19th centuries never became a part of national identity in 20th century – in contrast to some other folk dances. In the 21st century the štajeriš is performed only on a stage by numerous folkdance groups. The monograph is the first comprehensive study that systematically addresses the dance štajeriš in the Slovenian area and is important contribution to the Slovenian and the wider European ethnochoreology. The book won a price ‘The outstanding scientific achievement in the humanities (field of ethology) for year 2012’ by Slovenian Research Agency (2013).
COBISS.SI-ID: 264367872
This monograph presents an in-depth and comprehensive overview of the history of ethnomusicological research from the perspective of one of its most important activities, the recording of sound phenomena, while also exploring carefully and systematically for the first time the early sound recordings of Slovenian folk-music heritage. As an innovative contribution, sound recording processes that were used in the past are analyzed along with their strengths and weaknesses in comparison to other methods of documenting ethnomusicological material and with modern sound recording today.
COBISS.SI-ID: 241928192
Scientific monograph Musical image of folk songs in manuscripts, printed and audio sources from the first decades of the 20th century is revealing or complementing our knowledge about the sonic image of folk songs from that time. It focuses on relation of folk songs in the context of choral and gramophone music production to the folk songs as they were performed in the context of everyday life of mostly rural population. This relation is examined through the focus on one of essential elements of folk music performance - part singing, to which the previous ethnomusicology studies did not pay much attention. The study explores the intertwining of folk music with other musical genres, as well as it shows how popular and choral music of early 20th century affected folk songs and its performances. Understanding of these processes is, nowadays when past folk (music) practices are often being mythologized or authenticated, the basis for understanding contemporary interplay of folk music with other music genres.
COBISS.SI-ID: 278798592
The paper presents an experimental study on emotional and color perception of music, and a new multimodal dataset Moodo that can aid the development of affective music information retrieval systems. Moodo’s main novelties are a multimodal approach that links emotional and color perception to music and the inclusion of user context. Analysis of the dataset reveals notable differences in emotion-color associations and their valence-arousal ratings in non-music and music context. We also show differences in ratings of perceived and induced emotions, especially for those with perceived negative connotation, as well as the influence of genre and user context on perception of emotions. By applying an intermediate data fusion model, we demonstrate the importance of user profiles for predictive modeling in affective music information retrieval scenarios.
COBISS.SI-ID: 1537436611
In the quest for ethnic identification, ballads played an exceptionally important role, which was also based on their aesthetic evaluation. Transcriptions of songs from the first half of the nineteenth century focused on the lyrics, and so the assessment of the creators of ballads and their bearers was shaped based on the situation when these songs were still only preserved in the countryside. This perspective was in line with the concept of the rural population as the creators of folk tradition. However, taking into account social circumstances, evidence regarding the existence of broadsides, and lyrical and melodic characteristics, it is clear that certain ballads were to a large extent created by professionals and also based on printed material. When they were being created, these ballads were also widespread among young people as popular songs and also in the urban environment, which points to the importance of towns in this tradition not only in the present, but also in the past.
COBISS.SI-ID: 37881133