Lviv. Part 2.
Cultivating respect for cultural diversity is one of the components of our work.
In order to exchange experience and popularize Cossack songs, we met with specialists of the Department of Musical Folklore and the Laboratory of Musical Ethnology of the M. V. Lysenko Lviv National Academy of Music, as well as the Department of Ukrainian Folklore of LNU named after Ivan Franko.
What can we say? They have a very interesting view of learning. And that’s cool! The Mykola Lysenko Academy of Music has an Archive of Folk Music, which currently has about 70,000 audio recordings of folk music works with accompanying ethnographic information. This collection of Western Ukrainian folk music is the largest in the world. In addition, materials from other territories of Ukraine and neighboring lands are stored here. And the records themselves are actively used in pedagogical and scientific work. These are: systematic field surveys of mostly little-studied historical and ethnographic regions of Western Ukraine, processing and archiving of the acquired data, computerization of audio collections, multi-directional scientific and scientific-methodological studies – areal-typological, ethno-organological, resource studies, studies in the field of historical ethnomusicology, etc.
Regarding the University. Thanks to the support of colleagues from the American Folklorists’ Association, their laboratory was able to store electronic funds in reliable cloud storage.
In turn, we told our colleagues about our achievements – the Cossack songs of the Dnipropetrovsk region and the Petrykivka painting. We shared the experience of teaching the young generation to these two elements of the UNESCO National Heritage Site, measures to preserve them, and exchanged scientific gifts as a commemoration. We hope that we will see each other again and conduct joint projects.
