{"id":728,"date":"2020-04-27T11:26:16","date_gmt":"2020-04-27T11:26:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/?post_type=archiwum&p=728"},"modified":"2026-01-01T15:18:08","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T15:18:08","slug":"archiwum-dzialu-folkloru-muzeum-etnograficznego-w-toruniu-muzeum-etnograficzne-im-marii-znamierowskiej-prufferowej-w-toruniu-2","status":"publish","type":"archiwum","link":"https:\/\/etnofon.pl\/en\/archiwum\/archiwum-dzialu-folkloru-muzeum-etnograficznego-w-toruniu-muzeum-etnograficzne-im-marii-znamierowskiej-prufferowej-w-toruniu-2\/","title":{"rendered":"The Ethnographic Museum in Toru\u0144. Archives of the Folklore department"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Archiwum Dzia\u0142u Folkloru Muzeum Etnograficznego w Toruniu.<\/sup>
Muzeum Etnograficzne im. Marii Znamierowskiej-Prufferowej w Toruniu
Wa\u0142y gen. Sikorskiego 19, 87-100 Toru\u0144
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The Folklore Department of the City Museum in Toru\u0144 started its archiving works, focused especially on folk dance material in 1954 (after a few years the Department of Folk Dance has been created in the Ethnographic Museum in Toru\u0144). Dance melodies have been recorded on magnetic reel tapes, and catalogs and music transcripts has been made the way Jadwiga and Marian Sobiescy had intended. Museum\u2019s documentation was an \u201eecho\u201d of a local Akcja Zbierania Folkloru Muzycznego, influenced heavily by Sobiescy\u2019s achievements and experiances. The work resulted in reactivation of some bands that had stopped working because of cultural changes in the village. Recordings kept in the Archives of the Folklore Department in Toru\u0144 have been made between 50s and 80s by Roderyk Lange (from 1957 to early 60s), Ewa Arszy\u0144ska, Krystyna Pospiech-Tubaj (the 60s), Jan Oleksy and others.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Digitalizacja nagra\u0144 Archiwum Dzia\u0142u Folkloru Muzycznego Muzeum Etnograficznego w Toruniu (na zdj\u0119ciach Angelika Fierka). Warszawa 2018 r. Zbiory Fonograficzne IS PAN. Fot. Ewelina Grygier.<\/span><\/sup><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

An unquestionable asset of the collection is its authenticity. The material have been gathered mainly in Kujawy i Pa\u0142uki and it can tell us a lot about the musical and spiritual elements of culture (traditions and ceremonies, and also interviews with artists and craftsmen). A part of the collection has been brought to daylight thanks to the museum\u2019s publisher Folk music from Kujawy i Pau\u0142ki: <\/em>\u201eThe performers are often authentic country musicians and singers with a mediocre musical skill. Their everyday life was built not around music, but householding. Musicians were chosen not based on their skill but on the knowledge of old songs. That\u2019s why the recordings may sound a bit rough, even archaic, for a contemporary listener. [\u2026] The release of those recordings is very importat nonetheless, because it shows us folk musical culture in a less idolized, more authentic way, better than most of cherry-picked, most talented village artists perforamnces do\u201d \u2013 writes Agnieszka Kostrzewa in a commentary to the CD album.The oldest generation of performers, whose voices and music have been immortalized on the recordings, traces back to the last decades of XIX century. In the museum\u2019s collection we can also find interviews with folk artists and documentation of museum\u2019s events, folk bands performances (e.g. International Meetings of Folk Bands from 80s and 90s). There are about 2000 recordings in total in the collection, saved on 106 reel magnetic tapes and 100 audio cassetes. They are a valuable suplements to the exhibitons (they are used as soudtracks to some exhibits) and lessons. The museum owns reel magnetic tapes with the auditions from Pomorze and Kujawy Radio from 1952-1974 (770 tapes) as well. The collection has been digitalized and worked with since 2018 within the Polish folk music \u2013 phonographic heritage <\/em>project.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In 2018 some rare items joined the collection\u2013 pre-war recordings on Edison wax cylinders that came from the Central Phonogram Archives (CPA). All the CPA recordings had been believed to be lost, but in 2018 Ethnographic Museum in Toru\u0144 recieved, from a privat owner, three cylinders from this very collection. The carriers has been saved because their author \u2013 Bonifacy Zielonka, CAF\u2019s regional co-worker of that time \u2013 didn\u2019t manage to send them to CAF before the start of world war II. That\u2019s why they are probably the only remaining phonogram documentation from this great collection. The cylinders could be restored and digitalized because of Museum\u2019s cooperation with the Polish folk music \u2013 phonographic heritage <\/em>project. Descripting and identifying the recorded mterial is currently in progress.<\/p>\n\n\n