Zinaida Yakovlevna Mozheiko (6 December 1933 – 8 March 2014; Belarusian: Зінаіда Якаўлеўна Мажэйка) was a Belurisan ethnomusicologist and cinematographer. Considered the founder of Belarusian ethnomusicology, she mainly focused her research on the folklore of Belarusian songs.[1]

Biography

Mozheiko was born on 6 December 1933 in Orsha, Belarus. She attended Belarusian State University, and graduated from their Department of Journalism—part of their Philological Faculty—in 1952. She began working at a music school in Minsk in 1954, which she continued until 1958. She graduated from the Minsk Music College in 1956, and later worked there as a teacher between 1958 and 1962.[1]

In 1961, she graduated from the Belarusian Academy of Music in Minsk, where she studied as a part of their department of history and theory.[2]

Beginning in 1962, Mozheiko worked as a researcher for 50 years at the Institute of Art History, Ethnography and Folklore at the National Academy of Sciences of Belarus.[3] She first worked there until 1963,[1] then attended the institute for her post-graduate studies until 1966.[4] From 1966 to 2011, she continued to work at the institute,[1] becoming a senior researcher for the academy in 1971.[2]

She recorded folksongs, and released two collections of folk music in 1986 and 1990.[2] She used field recordings to create multiple documentaries about folk music, and released her work under the film studio "Belarusfilm" (Беларусьфільм).[5][4]

Mozheiko died in Minsk on 8 March 2014, at the age of 81.[6]

Writing

Monographs

  • Song culture of the Belarusian Palessia (Belarusian: Песенная культура беларускага Палесся) (1971)
  • Songs of the Belarusian Paazerya (Belarusian: Песні беларускага Паазер'я) (1981)
  • Songs of the Belarusian Palessia (Belarusian: Песні беларускага Палесся) (1985)
  • Calendar-song culture of Belarus: experience of systematic and typological research (Belarusian: Каляндарна-песенная культура Беларусі: вопыт сістэмна-тыпалагічнага даследвання) (1985)[4]

Books

  • Belarusian Ethnomusicology: Essays on History (XIX-XX centuries) (Belarusian: Беларуская этнамузыкалогія: Нарысы гісторыі (ХІХ-ХХ ст.ст.)) (1997) - contributor and editor[4]

Films

  • Poleskie Christmas (Belarusian: Палескія калядкі) (1972)
  • Voice of the Ages (Belarusian: Голоса веков) (1979)
  • Memory of the Centuries (Belarusian: Память столетий) (1982)
  • Polesskie Svadby (Belarusian: Полесские свадьбы) (1986)
  • Carry the Cloud, God Пранясі, божа, хмару) (1990)
  • Crooked Evenings Крывыя вечары) (1993)
  • Movement of the Earth Рух зямлі) (1999) [3]

Awards and honors

References

  1. 1 2 3 4 "Anniversary of the famous Belarusian ethnomusicologist". National Library of Belarus. 6 December 2023. Retrieved 23 December 2023.
  2. 1 2 3 Shcherbakova, Taisiya (2001). "Mozheyko [Mazheyka], Zinaida Yakovlevna". Grove Music Online. Oxford University Press. doi:10.1093/gmo/9781561592630.001.0001/omo-9781561592630-e-0000048790. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  3. 1 2 "Зінаіда Якаўлеўна Мажэйка". cbcll.basnet.by (in Belarusian). Retrieved 5 January 2024.
  4. 1 2 3 4 5 "Тэматычная выстава "Вядомы беларускі этнамузыколаг – Мажэйка Зінаіда Якаўлеўна": да 90 –годдзя з дня нараджэння"". Белорусская государственная академия музыки (in Belarusian). 10 April 2023. Retrieved 4 January 2024.
  5. ↑ Krader, Barbara (1990). "Recent Achievements in Soviet Ethnomusicology, with Remarks on Russian Terminology". Yearbook for Traditional Music. 22: 6. doi:10.2307/767926. ISSN 0740-1558.
  6. ↑ Аксак, Валянціна (11 March 2014). "Вянок памяці: Зінаіда Мажэйка". Радыё Свабода (in Belarusian). Retrieved 4 January 2024.
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