VOJENSKÉ PIESNE SLOVÁKOV VO VOJVODINE: TRADIČNÝ PIESŇOVÝ ŽÁNER A JEHO PREMENY V MINORITNOM PROSTREDÍ

This article focuses on research of military and recruiting songs in the Slovak ethnic enclave in Vojvodina, which hitherto have not been closely researched or evaluated. The song material was excerpted from selected archival holdings and published song collections; besides these, it is also drawn from song repertoire which the author documented during her own field work in certain localities of Vojvodina. Military songs are classified in a number of groups (as defined by the Slovak ethnomusicologist Soňa Burlasová), which are more closely characterised from the thematic and musical standpoints. The author compares the excerpted song material with military and recruiting songs from the territory of Slovakia, while pointing to their changes in the new setting of the Slovak enclave in Serbia.