https://doi.org/10.16926/em.2016.11.03
Animated films for children deserve attention not only as works designed to transfer a didactic
content, or to keep the youngest audience entertained – sometimes they document reality, perpetu-
ate the fashion and architectural details. Similarly, when they refer to folk traditions, one can
observe the conversion process of verbal forms of culture into audiovisual forms; as one of mass
culture texts, they influence the way in which are shaped ideas about folk culture.
The subject matter of the analysis is focused on the music for animated films produced in the
USSR, Czechoslovakia and Poland between 1949 and 1984, that is during the rule of socialism in
the Central and Eastern Europe. Only productions designed for children have been taken into
consideration. Music folklore appears in these films in various forms: sometimes developed in
accordance with the traditions of classical music, combined with the live music performing, mod-
ern mass pop music, or on the contrary – they use field recordings of traditional songs. The func-
tion of folk references is changing. The article pays particular attention to the ideological signifi-
cance associated with the use of folk music in different productions; in the films created till “the
Thaw” the postulates of socialist realism were usually implemented quite thoroughly, while the
films of the next decades were gradually going beyond the imposed directives, which resulted in
a great diversity perceptible in all the components of the animated film, including the approach to
the folklore subjects. There are observable differences in the approach to the traditional repertoire
in different countries – determined not only by the ideological pressure, but also by different musi-
cal traditions.
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