Regional and general features of outlaw songs from Podhale region

Regionalne i ponadregionalne cechy podhalańskich pieśni zbójnickich

Abstract

_{https://doi.org/10.26485/RKJ/2018/65/10}

_{Article in Polish}

_{The aim of the article is to present the regional and general dimension of poetic folklore texts. The analysis is based on outlaw songs of Podhale recorded in several ethnographic compilations, above all in Oskar Kolberg’s Dzieła wszystkie. The regional hallmarks of Podhale include outlaw themes, phonetic, grammatical and lexical features of the local dialect of the Podhale region and Slovak borrowings used as poetic devices. The universal dimension of these songs is seen in the use of typical devices of folk poetry such as diminutives, lexical and grammatical archaisms, displaced accent, non-lexical vocables, end-stopping, feminine rhymes, morphological doublets and repetitions. The great variation of texts of each song is also universally typical for folklore.}