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I've heard something similar at folk concert but I don't know from which region of Poland it was and it's generally not stuff that people know or sing (except f
by ajuc 6y ago
I've heard something similar at folk concert but I don't know from which region of Poland it was and it's generally not stuff that people know or sing (except for folk bands, recontruction groups etc.) Maybe it was translated from a russian song.
I think the most alive folk music is the one from górale (Tatra highlanders). It's very distinctive, after 2 chords you know it's from them.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G2qaeoQ4po https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-G2qaeoQ4po
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7o-Mh_ang4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b7o-Mh_ang4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOCTwL14-T8 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sOCTwL14-T8
Besides górale there are a few folk songs that everybody knows and sings at campfires or on weddings or other gatherings (they are called "piosenka biesiadna" because you usually sing them when you're eating).
Examples:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1q0-bT6H7s https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D1q0-bT6H7s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wug2YJGqca4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wug2YJGqca4
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjY88qmsbDg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YjY88qmsbDg
I'm not sure they are 100% authentic folk music though, because most versions nowadays are disco-polo :)
Example of true folk song I've heard a few times in my region (on weddings or concerts): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bY7J3KTx1w https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4bY7J3KTx1w
It's in regional dialect that nobody really speaks anymore in daily life.
Another kind of folk music that's still alive is przyśpiewki (orchestra plays same tune and people switch and sing to diss everybody else on weddings :)). It's basically folk rap battles :)
Example: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDABYBOXaAg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mDABYBOXaAg
BTW in one Kaczmarski song there's a Russian folk song included. I always wondered if it's true folk song or something he invented. Have you ever heard it?
The inner song starts here: https://youtu.be/7cxciyZEBkE?t=151 https://youtu.be/7cxciyZEBkE?t=151
- 082349872349872 6y agoPrzyśpiewki are exactly what I'd been looking for. Will check out the rest tomorrow... Dziękuję!
- 082349872349872 6y agoThe start of the included song is the same as a ukrainian folk song (with a very similar theme). https://nashe.com.ua/song/15379 https://nashe.com.ua/song/15379 another version (gaily gown-greening): https://www.pisni.org.ua/songs/461535.html https://www.pisni.org.ua/songs/461535.html And доню and собі́ would also be ukrainian. So it looks like I have to transliterate from polish to ukrainian, neither of which I have any experience with... (Incidentally, wesele seems to be one of the false friends you mentioned. Part of the chorus in https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPovcLSEfS4 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NPovcLSEfS4 is Давай, давай веселей, but somehow I doubt the context has much to do with weddings.) Edit: and speaking of weddings, YT just gave me https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOc0s0OXV0Q https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OOc0s0OXV0Q I guess https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth#/media/File:Rzeczpospolita2nar.png https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polish–Lithuanian_Commonwealth... probably had something to do with the distribution of the song? Edit2: The instrumentation for Głęboka studzienka reminded me of my favourite bavarian cover band (for anyone that doesn't know they need to hear oom-pah metal): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wbsEZzgCwmI Edit3: TIL poland is a civilised country. You all also have carnaval! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clr9gqqZ6jg https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=clr9gqqZ6jg
- ajuc 6y agoYeah the song is a relict of PLC times. "Wesele" means "wedding", "weselej" means "more happily" (wesoło, weselej, najweselej = happily, happili-er, happili-est - as adverbs not adjectives). So "dawaj, dawaj, weselej" would mean something like "let's go, let's go, happier now", right?
- 082349872349872 6y agoYes. I'd imagined something along the lines of "c'mon, c'mon, party!" And I'd anglicise "Wiesiołyje Rebiata" as "Party Dudes"[1], but take that with a lot of salt[2], as my command of californian is much stronger than my sense of slavic... (I'm pretty confident about it though, because pop music tends to gravitate to a certain vocabulary. Just as corazon is one of the first words one learns when listening to mexican radio, and сердце occurs often in russian, I assume I'll be hearing serce frequently, along with appropriate first and second person possessives, in disco polo...) [1] Here's that band rocking their 80's style: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIZxpmohOlk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FIZxpmohOlk [2] i chlebem? Edit: one of these days I still need to play with the Kogut programming language, http://kokogut.sourceforge.net/kogut.html http://kokogut.sourceforge.net/kogut.html
- 082349872349872 6y agoTrue folk song: ukrainian, "Even though he lost interest in the cock"[1] Послала мене мати к хлопців погуляти: "Погуляй собі, доню, Я ж тобі не бороню". А я собі гуляю, Як рибка по Дунаю, Як рибка з окунцями, Я, молода, з хлопцями. ==== My mother sent me to go for a walk with the guys: "Take a walk, daughter, I'm not tilling[2] you." I'm walking[3] around, Like a fish in the Danube, Like a fish with perches[4], Youthful me, with the guys. from: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtR4szp1CB0 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jtR4szp1CB0 For a similar story in an anglophone context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0mxQXmLsk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BQ0mxQXmLsk [1] The rest of the song is about planting and furrows and peas in pods and other agricultural topics, so it should be no surprise the young man of the title had a rooster along. As roosters will do, it had awakened her in the morning, after a night of very little sleep. [2] Compare https://acoup.blog/2020/08/06/collections-bread-how-did-they-make-it-part-iii-actually-farming/ https://acoup.blog/2020/08/06/collections-bread-how-did-they... I'm not sure if this verb is referring to the pre-seeding earthwork (which makes a fertile soil receptive to the seeds) or the post-seeding earthwork (which covers up the generative potential, protecting them from the outside environment). Either way, mama ain't doin' it. [3] I don't know if this is a difference between folk song usage and modern, or ukrainian and russian dialects, but "walk around" pretty much means "party" in russian hiphop lyrics. Compare https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU-XAxBkEaE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU-XAxBkEaE (and unless I've been listening to the wrong ones, wells and riverbanks in slavic folk songs often lead to trouble — and seat wetting.) [4] Perches are carnivores. (Well-danced tango is said to have a bit of stalking predator play?) Perch are also fairly indiscriminate: they'll go for just about any bait, whether it wriggles or not.
- ajuc 6y agoThanks a lot :). The false friends are interesting, I though "hulaty" was the same word as Polish "hulać" which means to have fun/to party. The other quirky word is "boroniu", which I thought was the same word as Polish "bronić" which means "to defend", but in this context (ja tobie nie bronię) it would mean (I don't forbid you). It comes from the noun "broń" (a weapon). The agricultural stuff would be "bronować" in comparison from the plural noun "brony" (harrows). I wonder if the Ukrainian is maybe closer to Polish in this case? Cause it would make more sense that way. Even "ukonce" have Polish equivalent "okonie". That's why I suspected Kaczmarski invented it - the song was completely understandable to me without any knowledge of Russian or Ukrainian except for knowing how the sounds change usually.
- 082349872349872 6y ago"Stworzona je koza" reminds me of yak-shaving. Maybe it should become the coders' folk song?