Kolberg – Nowy Kolberg – cyberkolberg. Z problemów systematyki polskich pieśni ludowych

Abstract

The ethnographic and folklore materials collected and published by Oskar Kolberg contain a substantial portion of folk songs. Publication of such extensive collections required the introduction of a deliberate system of organizing texts. In this chapter I show that the way of structuring the folk songs proposed by Kolberg – even though it was imperfect – to a large extent determined the later editorial and publishing concepts and practices. It is also present in contemporary works, including a multi-volume publication Polska pieśń i muzyka ludowa. Źródła i materiały called New Kolberg. In the last part of the text I point at new possibilities for ordering folklore materials associated with the development of digital technologies and computer databases that allow to overcome the shortcomings of the scheme popularized by Oskar Kolberg.