Animal origins of music. The poem Bird radio by Julian Tuwim
Keywords:
ethological tale, Darwinian studies, theory of evolution, animal speech, animal aesteticAbstract
The essay is concerned with the topic of archaic “ethological tales”, which often present non-anthropocentric definitions of an animal as an emotional, rational, aesthetic creature – not formulated in opposition to the human. This point of view also appears in the poetry of Julian Tuwim, who connects the mythical idea of interspecies community with the Darwinian theory of evolution. In Ptasie radio/Bird radio (1938) he shows, for example, that the concept of melic poetry inherited from the ancient Greeks, has a biological base and comes from birds’ vocalisation. Analysing birds’ mating songs leads him to the idea that not only does man have the ability to generate aesthetic sounds, but that he also shares this ability also with other animals. Today, his intuition can be confirmed also in the field of genetic research.
References
Bańko, Mirosław. Słownik onomatopei, czyli wyrazów dźwięko i rucho naśladowczych. Warszawa: PWN, 2012.
Griffin, Donald R. Umysły zwierząt. Translated by Magdalena Ślósarska, Anna Tabaczyńska. Gdańsk: Gdańskie Wydawnictwo Psychologiczne, 2004.
Grosz, Elizabeth. “Sztuka i zwierzę.” Translated by Cyprian Podlaszewski. Magazyn Sztuki, no. 5 (2014): 40-47.
Grosz, Elizabeth. Becoming Undone: Darwinian Reflections on Life, Politics and Art. London: Duke University Press, 2011.
Kleczkowska, Katarzyna. “Those Who Cannot Speak. Animals as Others in Ancient Greek Thought.” Maska, no. 24 (2014): 97-108.
Kocur, Mirosław. Źródła teatru. Wrocław: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Wrocławskiego, 2013.
Kowalewska, Katarzyna. “ ‘Alchemiczne laboratoria’ Juliana Tuwima.” In Julian Tuwim. Biografia, twórczość, recepcja. Edited by Krystyna Ratajska, Tomasz Cieślak. Łódź: Wydawnictwo Uniwersytetu Łódzkiego, 2012.
Krzyżanowski, Julian. “Pegaz dęba w krainie nauki. Gawęda o Julianie Tuwimie.” In Julian Krzyżanowski. W kręgu wielkich realistów. Kraków: Wydawnictwo Literackie, 1962.
Lefkowitz, Jeremy B. “Aesop and Animal Fable.” In The Oxford Handbook of Animals in Classical Thought and Life. Ed. G.L. Campbell. Aug 2014. Online access: https://www.oxfordhandbooks.com/view/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780199589425.001.0001/oxfordhb-9780199589425-e-001.
Matywiecki, Piotr. Twarz Tuwima. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo W.A.B, 2007.
Nawarecki, Aleksander. “Od harfy do megafonu. Muzyka w poezji Juliana Tuwima.” In Aleksander Nawarecki. Rzeczy i marzenia. Studia o wyobraźni poetyckiej skamandrytów. Katowice: Śląsk, 1993.
Nawarecki, Aleksander. “Zoofilologia.” In Zwierzęta i ich ludzie: zmierzch antropocentrycznego paradygmatu. Edited by Anna Barcz, Dorota Łagodzka. Warszawa: Wydawnictwo IBL PAN, 2015.
Podlipniak, Piotr. “Muzyka i język a muzykologia systematyczna. O aktualności perspektywy językowej w badaniach nad muzycznością człowieka.” Res Facta Nova, no. 15 (2014): 301-318.
Sawicka, Jadwiga. Filozofia słowa Juliana Tuwima. Wrocław–Warszawa–Kraków–Gdańsk: Zakład Narodowy im. Ossolińskich, 1975. .
Tuwim, Julian. “Zarys ćwierkologii.” In Julian Tuwim. Pegaz dęba, czyli panoptikum poetyckie. Warszawa: Iskry, 2008.
Tuwim, Julian. Wiersze dla dzieci. Warszawa: Nasza Księgarnia, 1986.
Welsch, Wolfgang. Estetyka poza estetyką. Translated by Katarzyna Guczalska. Kraków: Universitas, 2005.
Żerańska-Kominek, Sławomira: “Karol Darwin a problem pochodzenia muzyki.” Muzyka no. 1 (46) / 2001.
Published
How to Cite
Issue
Section
License
The Copyright Owners of the submitted texts grant the Reader the right to use the pdf documents under the provisions of the Creative Commons 4.0 International License: Attribution-Share-Alike (CC BY-SA). The user can copy and redistribute the material in any medium or format and remix, transform, and build upon the material for any purpose.
1. License
The University of Silesia Press provides immediate open access to journal’s content under the Creative Commons BY-SA 4.0 license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/). Authors who publish with this journal retain all copyrights and agree to the terms of the above-mentioned CC BY-SA 4.0 license.
2. Author’s Warranties
The author warrants that the article is original, written by stated author/s, has not been published before, contains no unlawful statements, does not infringe the rights of others, is subject to copyright that is vested exclusively in the author and free of any third party rights, and that any necessary written permissions to quote from other sources have been obtained by the author/s.
If the article contains illustrative material (drawings, photos, graphs, maps), the author declares that the said works are of his authorship, they do not infringe the rights of the third party (including personal rights, i.a. the authorization to reproduce physical likeness) and the author holds exclusive proprietary copyrights. The author publishes the above works as part of the article under the licence "Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International".
ATTENTION! When the legal situation of the illustrative material has not been determined and the necessary consent has not been granted by the proprietary copyrights holders, the submitted material will not be accepted for editorial process. At the same time the author takes full responsibility for providing false data (this also regards covering the costs incurred by the University of Silesia Press and financial claims of the third party).
3. User Rights
Under the CC BY-SA 4.0 license, the users are free to share (copy, distribute and transmit the contribution) and adapt (remix, transform, and build upon the material) the article for any purpose, provided they attribute the contribution in the manner specified by the author or licensor.
4. Co-Authorship
If the article was prepared jointly with other authors, the signatory of this form warrants that he/she has been authorized by all co-authors to sign this agreement on their behalf, and agrees to inform his/her co-authors of the terms of this agreement.
I hereby declare that in the event of withdrawal of the text from the publishing process or submitting it to another publisher without agreement from the editorial office, I agree to cover all costs incurred by the University of Silesia in connection with my application.
