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PhD in Philology, Research Fellow of the Centre for Typological and Semiotic Folklore Studies, Russian State University for the Humanitie
The 1920s were a very fruitful period in folklore studies, especially in fieldwork. In the 1930s the historical situation in the country changed radically (control over research activities increased, specific topics were banned, regional studies was destroyed), and a large amount of recorded folk material, including manuscripts that had been prepared for publication, were locked away in the archives. Since the 1980s, there has been a gradual return to “deferred” topics and the “discovery” of materials from that period. This publication is a collection of songs (30 texts) recorded by M. V. Krasnozhenova from an 18-year-old rural girl, Zoya Plotnikova. Maria Vasilievna did not have a professional education, but it seems wrong to consider her an amateur folklorist: she conducted regular fieldwork every summer and recorded the lyrics of about a thousand songs. The material she collected is interesting for several reasons. First, it shows a typical song repertoire of the youth of the time, which is confirmed by comparative analysis. Second, Zoya’s repertoire shows how quickly new urban songs could appear in a village. Third, Krasnozhenova’s recording was done in the south of Krasnoyarsk Region, a territory which has not been systematically investigated by folklorists. The reproduced texts are provided with commentary which, among other things, is intended to show the “afterlife” of song plots on the territory of the former Minusinsk Uezd, where M. V. Krasnozhenova worked, as well as in other regions.
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