Article

Name: Calendar rituals and songs of Kamyshinka village fieldwork materials of 2016)

Authors: T. V. Dayneko

In the section Обрядовый фольклор

Abstract: The paper presents a part of the materials collected by the author in 2016 during the folklore-ethnographic expedition to Kyshtovsky district of Novosibirsk region (in the villages of Kyshtovka, Malaya Skirla, Kamyshinka, Kolbasa, Krutikha). The paper presents the transcription of the interview with three women dwelling in Kamyshinka village, participants of the folk singing company “Sudarushka” who are descendants of the settlers from Byelorussia and Smolensk region inheriting their folk tradition. The information about calendar rituals and songs of Kamyshinka is selected in the article. The information is compiled according the year calendar cycle that is reflected in the paper sections. The recitals are presented about the main period of the winter cycle – the Christmastide which included walking from yard to yard singing carols, fortunetellings, evening parties for young people, along with recitals about ritual actions, preparing special ritual food and songs attributed to feasts of Maslenitsa, Soroki, Easter, Radonitsa, and the Trinity Sunday. In the recitals the lexical, syntax and phonetic details of the performers’ speech are retained. The texts of certain songs are presented. The aim of the paper is to introduce new materials on folklore of Byelorussian settlers to Siberia for scientific use.

Keywords: folklore of Siberian Byelorussian settlers, calendar rituals and songs of Siberian Byelorussian settlers, fieldwork materials, field folklore study

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