Article

Name: On the morphology of oral song culture in the context of inter-discourse and interlanguage interaction (based on the Siberian-Mordovian material)

Authors: Pavel S. Shakhov

Institute of Philology of the Siberian Branch of the Russian Academy of Sciences, Novosibirsk, Russian Federation

In the section Study of folklore

Abstract:

The paper analyzes musical and poetic texts adopted by folk singers based on Erzya-Mordovian material recorded in the villages of Altai Krai and Kemerovo Oblast from 2007 to 2017. The texts have been systematized in terms of three levels of their attribution: text form (oral, printed, media), text type (folklore, authors’), and text language (own, other). A consistent description is provided of the identified adaptation forms of oral, printed, and media texts to the oral song practice. The examination of the unique musical and poetic adaptations of borrowed texts by performers illuminates the creative strategies employed by oral storytellers relying on their own repertoire, genre, and style preferences. The analysis of oral traditional texts adapted to late-tradition musical styles reveals a process of restylization impacting poetic structure and contributing to genre transformation by realizing updated musical and stylistic potential. Authors’ revisions of printed folklore and literary texts, when examined in their adapted forms, show unique musical and poetic features rooted in Erzya-Mordovian folklore and the style of modern popular songs. The analysis of textual adaptations reveals identifiable adaptation models. Emphasis is placed on the significance of translation activity in the process of mastering the Russian-language segment of the media by ethnophores.

Keywords: Erzya Mordvins of Siberia, song folklore, written and media culture, phenomenon of authorship, interlanguage interaction

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