Research Article
Creative Works of Mykhailo Tymofiyiv in the Context of the Pipe Performing Evolution (to the 80th-Anniversary of the Date of Birth)
Roman Dzvinka*
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 3, June 2025
Pages:
56-60
Received:
3 March 2025
Accepted:
14 April 2025
Published:
23 June 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20251303.13
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Abstract: The article deals with the study of the creativity of the famous artist of Mykhailo Tymofiyiv in the process of formation and development of modern pipe performing. The most important aspects of the authentic and secondary performance of the virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and master of wind ethno-instruments are revealed. The relevance of this topic is to study the significant creative work of M. Tymofiyiv, a virtuoso multi-instrumentalist, master of ethno-blue wind instruments, who made a significant contribution to the development of Ukrainian pipe performance. The phenomenon of a great Hutsul artist is that his personality organically combines a researcher and an expert in traditional culture, an inventor and a great master of ethno-brass instruments. Mykhailo Tymofiyiv is a masterful performer of authentic music in its original shape and secondary forms of existence, an unsurpassed performer of academic music on the frilka (Ukrainian musical instrument) and pipe. An outstanding multi-instrumentalist, he was proficient in playing many ethno-brass instruments and popularized traditional instrumental Hutsul music not only in Ukraine but also abroad. M. Tymofiуіv played an important role in the search and development of the optimal design of pipe instruments, which marked the beginning of a new phase in the development of pipe-making and the professionalisation of pipe performance in Ukraine. The creative work of the outstanding multi instrumentalist, innovator and designer of ethno brass instruments of Mykhailo Tymofiiiv puts him in the same line with the famous Ukrainian masters of pipe instruments and virtuoso performers.
Abstract: The article deals with the study of the creativity of the famous artist of Mykhailo Tymofiyiv in the process of formation and development of modern pipe performing. The most important aspects of the authentic and secondary performance of the virtuoso multi-instrumentalist and master of wind ethno-instruments are revealed. The relevance of this topi...
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Research Article
The Mythology Behind the Creation of Blambangan Keris and Its Influence on the Creative Industry
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 3, June 2025
Pages:
61-67
Received:
14 May 2025
Accepted:
3 June 2025
Published:
23 June 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20251303.14
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Abstract: Given its meaningful and artistic values, Indonesian keris has been recognized by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage. However, contrary to the values in Indonesian culture, many view keris as a mystical object and even consider it an infidel. Keris manifests power and strengths. This interpretation needs to be restored to preserve the cultural meaning associated with keris. The inquiry on the mythological code/symbol of keris is a follow-up research from previous theses (Myth of Mahesa Sura; Toponymy of the Ancient Nusantara Perspective; and Batik Mythology, Meaning of Code, Function, and Strengthening of its Industry (Oral Tradition Perspective), which points to the relevance of mythological symbols in batik and keris. The present study highlights the critical role of triangulating findings about the power of ancient kings manifested in the Blambangan keris. It aims to disseminate findings on (1) the mythology of the creation of Blambangan keris, (2) the meaning embedded in the Blambangan keris motifs, and (3) the function of keris in Blambangan tradition, from the Indonesian oral tradition lens. This study was conducted using a qualitative-critical ethnographic design with a multi-interdisciplinary approach covering mythology, toponymy, semiotics, linguistics, archeology, and arts. Data were garnered through (a) documentation, (b) observation, (c) free-in-depth interviews. The data were analyzed usingcritical ethnography theory coupled with interactive flow model analysis with modifications. This study portrayed a comprehensive narrative about the mythology of the kings in Indonesia based on existing cultural products, especially keris. It corroborates previous studies noting that the symbols on the Blambangan keris indicate that Medang Kawulan existed and that Blambangan was established in Jember region, East Java. Keris mythology can inform the development learning resources and the Indonesian keris industry. This becomes increasingly crucial as keris has experienced economic secularization (profane) into freely traded goods such as replicas, displays, ornaments, and merchandise, leading to the segregation between keris and family/ancestor/lineage symbols.
Abstract: Given its meaningful and artistic values, Indonesian keris has been recognized by UNESCO as a world cultural heritage. However, contrary to the values in Indonesian culture, many view keris as a mystical object and even consider it an infidel. Keris manifests power and strengths. This interpretation needs to be restored to preserve the cultural mea...
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Research Article
Re-reading History, Re-membering the Nation: Mukul Kesavan’s Looking Through Glass
Issue:
Volume 13, Issue 3, June 2025
Pages:
68-73
Received:
2 June 2025
Accepted:
13 June 2025
Published:
25 June 2025
DOI:
10.11648/j.ijla.20251303.15
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Abstract: Post-colonial fiction by Indian authors writing in English attempts to recover the marginalized history of the struggle of minority populations which has been rendered invisible in the dominant historiography of Partition and Independence. Mukul Kesavan’s Looking Through Glass, published by Ravi Dayal in 1995, attempts to recover and re-member a history that is not easily available to his generation, yet one that plays a powerful role in shaping the nation's identity through its very unavailability and suppression. One of the problematics that he interrogates in his novel is that of the disempowerment that results from unquestioningly accepting the historiography that has been constructed for the nation by the ruling powers. Kesavan attempts to disturb the settled national historiography through his narrative technique of ‘fabulous realism’ through which he aims to revise history in order to probe its potential for possibilities for change other than those emerging in the present. The novel attempts a re-vision of the events from 1942-1947 from a different angle, using the trope of the camera and zoom lens, through the sensibility of the post-colonial/post-Independence/post-Partition citizen who is living through the aftermath of these events but chooses to disregard the weight of the past in the shaping of his present identity. Kesavan is emphasizing the need to understand, or experience, the past as opposed to simply knowing the facts in order to construct knowledge about the nation, and to make a dynamic connection between the past and the present. Kesavan re-constructs history by literally putting it back together piece by piece, re-membering it, illustrating how the present has been slowly and painstakingly built on the sites created by the past. By alienating the readers from the taken for granted familiarity of mundane, everyday landscape (and events) he is forcing them to deconstruct its present form and re-vision it as rising out of the past.
Abstract: Post-colonial fiction by Indian authors writing in English attempts to recover the marginalized history of the struggle of minority populations which has been rendered invisible in the dominant historiography of Partition and Independence. Mukul Kesavan’s Looking Through Glass, published by Ravi Dayal in 1995, attempts to recover and re-member a hi...
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