Русские лирические песни Сибири и Дальнего Востока. - 1997. (Т. 14.)

SUMMARY This book is a scientific, the most complete publication of the non-ritual lyric songs of the Russian population in Siberia and the Far East. Enormous collector’s work of several generations of philologists, ethnographers, his­ torians, musicologists and lovers of songs 150 years old, from the 30s of the last century till the 80s of this century has been generalized. The materials of the Central and local archives, publications in the difficult of access periodicals and present day expedition data have become the source for this work. All the regions of Siberia and the Far East — from the Irtish and the Altai till Transbaikal and Sakhalin — are represented. There are 520 texts of the songs. They are divided into the following sections: the drawling peasant's, round playing songs and dances; Cossack and soldier’s; convict’s (jail) and tramp’s, miner’s, factory and plant worker’s. The song repertoire of the Siberian and the Far East population has been formed on the basis of all-Russian musical culture, at the same time the peculiarities of every day life, occupation, social circumstances contributed to the appearance of some regional traditions. For example, one could not find in particular the peasant’s antiserf songs and could hardly find barge hauler’s ones. Soldier’s and Cossack songs have definitely the regional local features, especially the convict’s, prisoner's, tramp’s, deportee’s, as well as worker’s and in particular miner’s songs. The region’s specific character is thus revealed in true unity of various songs. It is necessary to stress the extraordinary heterogeneity, diversity of the song repertoire of Siberia and the Far East having the unforgettable unique local peculiarities. That was the direct reason of the specific character of people’s settling in these regions resulting in the formation of different population groups isolated from each other. Simultaneously, we can observe that in Siberia the traditions are being kept more strictly than in the European Russia. This tendency could be explained by the desire of the Siberian people to preserve their ancestor’s traditions from their former places of living and the isolations of their present settlements. Mainly the traditional folk songs have been selected for the book that provides the inner material integrity. A special attention is paid to the