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Zinaida Yakovlevna Mozheiko (Belarusian: Зінаіда Якаўлеўна Мажэйка; 6 December 1933 – 8 March 2014) was a Belarusian ethnomusicologist and cinematographer. Considered the founder of Belarusian ethnomusicology, she mainly focused her research on the folklore of Belarusian songs.[1]
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]
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]
- 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]
- 1987 - Honored Artist of the Byelorussian SSR
- 1994 - State Prize of the Republic of Belarus[4]
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