Nenets nyukubts songs. Structure and images
https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-6-26-45
Abstract
Nenets nyukubts songs can be referred to the genres of maternal folklore, – they are performed for children, starting from the very young age. The specificity of the genre does not allow singing other kids’ nyukubts to a child – it is necessary to create a song specially for a particular child. This responsibility usually falls on one of the child’s closest relatives: mother, father, brother or sister, grandmother or grandfather.
In terms of structure, nyukubts songs repeat the “parental” genre of individual songs – in nyukubts, as in adult individual songs, one can distinguish elements indicating the “master”, “owner” of the song and elements describing this child, his life and his accomplishments. The motifs characteristic of nyukubts songs form a number of “clusters”: description of the child’s present features and actions, appeals to external forces for help, praising of the child, affirmation of sleep, description of the circumstances of birth, and affirmation of the child’s future features and occupations. The expressions of these motifs vary from song to song and it is almost impossible to find repetitions, which may be due to the importance of individualism in general for the genre of individual songs. Nevertheless, it is possible to trace quite clearly the division of songs according to the gender of their addressee: semantically nyukubts for boys and for girls will differ.
About the Author
M. G. Belodedova
Russian State University for the Humanities
Russian Federation
Russian Federation
Margarita G. Belodedova
6, Miusskaya Sq., Moscow, Russia, 125047
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Belodedova M.G. Nenets nyukubts songs. Structure and images. RSUH/RGGU Bulletin: “Literary Teory. Linguistics. Cultural Studies”, Series. 2024;(6):26-45. (In Russ.) https://doi.org/10.28995/2686-7249-2024-6-26-45
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