“Gender Portrait” of the Composer Mykola Lysenko
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.31866/2410-1915.24.2023.287668Keywords:
Mykola Lysenko, womanhood, gender portrait, Ukrainian musical culture, women writers, performance, folklore studies and pedagogyAbstract
The aim of the article is to analyse the manifestations and features of the gender component in compositional, pedagogical, cultural and social activities, folklore studies, and performance, as well as in Mykola Lysenko’s private life. Results. It is revealed that womanhood was a significant factor in shaping the psychology, worldview, and artistic universe of M. Lysenko. He, in turn, influenced/captivated women with musical talent and wholehearted dedication to the national cause. The article highlights the nature of the artist’s relationship with his female family circle, acquaintances, female colleagues, co-authors, and performers, on the basis of which the following, thoroughly positive, gender paradigms are defined: filial and parental (more broadly — family) love, responsibility for female students and choristers, collegial and professional respect, appreciation of women’s views, actions, and creative achievements, representation of the latter in his work, and respect for women’s social and pedagogical efforts. The scientific novelty of the article lies in the first-ever research on musical and anthropological issues, dedicated to reconstructing the comprehensive gender portrait of a prominent cultural and historical figure who, along with national beliefs and artistic priorities, influenced society with his own example of cultural relations between genders. Conclusions. The gender discourse of Mykola Lysenko’s life and work showed his exceptionally positive attitude towards the opposite sex, which manifested itself, on the one hand, in the absence of gender stereotypes, pejorative interpretation, or levelling, and on the other hand, in respect for women of different ages, social and professional status. This was facilitated by his thorough upbringing, European education, and the artist’s individual psychological and mental qualities such as communication skills, friendliness, empathy, humanity, decency, nobility, and others.
References
Chukhym, N. (2000). Gender ta genderni doslidzhennia v XX st [Gender and gender studies in the 20th century]. Nezalezhnyi kulturolohichnyi chasopys "Yi", 17, 22–29 [in Ukrainian].
Khoma, T. (2000). Chy buv feminizm v Ukraini? [Was there feminism in Ukraine?]. Nezalezhnyi kulturolohichnyi chasopys "Yi", 17, 21–27 [in Ukrainian].
Khorunzhyi, Yu. (2004). Shliakhetni ukrainky: Esei-parsuny [Noble Ukrainian women: Essays-parsuns]. Vydavnytstvo imeni Oleny Telihy [in Ukrainian].
Kobchenko, K. (2017). Osvita yak forma zhinochoi emansypatsii: Pryklad Naddiprianskoi Ukrainy (seredyna XIX – pochatok XX stolittia) [Education as a form of female emancipation: The example of Naddipryan Ukraine (mid-19th – early 20th centuries)]. In O. Kis (Ed.), Ukrainski zhinky u hornyli modernizatsii [Ukrainian women in the crucible of modernization] (pp. 52–77). Klub simeinoho dozvillia [in Ukrainian].
Kontsitska, H. (2016). Teoretyko-metodolohichni osnovy doslidzhennia feministskykh rukhiv u politytsi [Theoretical and methodological foundations of the study of feminist movements in politics] [PhD Dissertation, Ivan Franko National University of Lviv]. https://www.lnu.edu.ua/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/dis_konsiska.pdf [in Ukrainian].
Koroleva, N. (2020). Na mohylu vchytelevi. Z pryvodu 20-kh rokovyn z dnia smerty [To the teacher’s grave. On the occasion of the 20th anniversary of the death]. In N. Koroleva, Storinka z knyhy [Page from the book] (pp. 97–100). Folio [in Ukrainian].
Kozarenko, O. (2023). Mykola Lysenko – tvorets ukrainskoi natsionalnoi muzychnoi movy [Mykola Lysenko is the creator of the Ukrainian national musical language]. Vik [in Ukrainian].
Lysenko, M. V. (2004). Lysty [Letters] (R. M. Skorulska, Comp.). Muzychna Ukraina [in Ukrainian].
Lysenko, O. M. (1991). Spohady pro batka [Memories of my father]. Muzychna Ukraina [in Ukrainian].
Lysenko, O. M. (Comp.). (1968). M. V. Lysenko u spohadakh suchasnykiv [M. V. Lysenko in the memories of contemporaries]. Muzychna Ukraina [in Ukrainian].
Pchilka, O. (1913). Mykola Lysenko (spohady i dumky) [Mykola Lysenko (memories and thoughts)]. In Literaturno-naukovyi vistnyk [Literary and scientific herald] (Vol. 61, Book 1, pp. 56–73). Drukarnia 1-oi Kyivskoi Drukarskoi spilky [in Ukrainian].
Revutskyi, D. M. (2003). Melaniia Ovdiivna Zahorska, spivrobitnytsia Lysenkova [Melania Ovdiivna Zahorska, Lysenkov’s colleague]. In D. M. Revutskyi, Mykola Lysenko: Povernennia pershodzherel [Mykola Lysenko: Return of primary sources] (pp. 48–52). Muzychna Ukraina [in Ukrainian].
Rusova, S. (1928). Moi spomyny. Rr. 1861–1879 [My memories. Year 1861–1879]. In M. Hrushevskyi (Ed.), Za 100 lit: Materiialy z hromadskoho y literaturnoho zhyttia Ukrainy XIX i pochatkiv XX stolittia [For 100 years: Materials from the public and literary life of Ukraine in the 19th and early 20th centuries] (Book 2, pp. 135–175). Derzhavne vydavnytstvo Ukrainy [in Ukrainian].
Shchukina, I. (2022, November 3–4). Yuvilei Mykoly Lysenka: Nacherky za materialamy arkhivu Oleny Pchilky [The anniversary of Mykola Lysenko: Sketches based on the materials of the archive of Elena Pchilka]. In Ukraina. Yevropa. Svit. Istoriia ta imena v kulturno-mystetskykh refleksiiakh [Ukraine. Europe. World. History and names in cultural and artistic reflections] [Proceedings of the Conference] (pp. 351–359). Ukrainian National Tchaikovsky Academy of Music [in Ukrainian].
Skorulska, R., & Chuieva, M. (2015). Mykola Lysenko. Dni i roky [Mykola Lysenko. Days and years]. Muzychna Ukraina [in Ukrainian].
Starytska-Cherniakhivska, L. (2000). Spohady pro M. V. Lysenka [Memories of M. V. Lysenko]. In L. Starytska-Cherniakhivska, Vybrani tvory. Dramatychni tvory. Proza. Poeziia. Memuary [Selected works. Dramatic works. Prose. Poetry. Memoirs] (pp. 764–786). Naukova dumka [in Ukrainian].
Yermolenko, V. (2023). Eros i Psykheia. Kokhannia i kultura v Yevropi [Eros and Psyche. Love and culture in Europe]. Old Lion Publishing House [in Ukrainian].
Downloads
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
Authors who publish in this journal agree to the following terms:
1) The authors reserve the right to the authorship of their work and transfer to the journal the right to first publish this work under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which allows others to freely distribute the published work with a mandatory reference to the authors of the original work and the first publication of the work in this journal.
2) The authors have the right to enter into independent additional agreements for non-exclusive distribution of the work in the form in which it was published by this journal (for example, to place the work in the electronic repository of the institution or to publish it as part of a monograph), provided that the reference to the first publication of the work in this journal is maintained.
3) The journal's policy allows and encourages authors to post their manuscripts on the Internet (for example, in institutional repositories or on personal websites) both before submitting the manuscript to the editorial board and during its editorial processing, as this contributes to the emergence of a productive scientific discussion and has a positive effect on the efficiency and dynamics of citation of published work (see The Effect of Open Access).
