Naslov
Franz Xaver Koch's vs. Franjo Ksaver Kuhač's Musical and Other Identities: German/Austrian, Pan-Slavic, South-Slavic and/or Croatian?

Autori
Stanislav Tuksar

Vrsta, podvrsta i kategorija rada
Poglavlja u knjigama, znanstveni

Knjiga
Franjo Ksaver Kuhač (1834.-1911.): Glazbena historiografija i identitet / Music Historiography and Identity

Urednik/ci
Vjera Katalinić ; Stanislav Tuksar

Izdavač
Hrvatsko muzikološko društvo

Grad
Zagreb

Godina
2013

Raspon stranica
27-32

ISBN
978-953-6090-48-8

Ključne riječi
Franz Xaver Koch, identity, psychological portrait, individual psychology, social psychology, cognitive psychology, psycho-dynamic development, typology of behaviour, cultural identity

Sažetak
Stark and “objectivizing” facts on the identity of Franjo Ksaver Kuhač, i.e. on the fact that he was born as Franz Xaver Koch with strictly German parents, that his mother tongue was German and that he started to learn the Croatian language only at the age of 21, have been repeated for a whole century in lexicons, encyclopaedias and musico-historical surveys. The focus of this article are complex relationships between several layers of Kuhač's appearance, both in his physical and historical existence and in the world of ideas, i.e. of his identity (or identities) in its (or their) totality. Apart from their primarily philosophical and mathematical roots, determinants of identity are today mostly discussed within the areas of individual and social psychology, social sciences and cultural studies. In Kuhač's case the focal points seem to be the areas of individual and social psychology, i.e. relation to self- image, the mental model of one's own self and the self- esteem. In this, cognitive psychology dealing with the capacity for self-reflection and the awareness of self is especially applicable. Kuhač exemplified a typical psychodynamic model, confirming the processuality of his ego-identity formation across his lifespan. Moreover, the series of stages in which his identity was formed were responses to more or less sophisticated challenges, due to closer or wider social circumstances which were at their background. Within the social psychology area, Kuhač was undoubtedly imbued with an outstandingly strong impetus for exploration and committed uncompromisingly to his self-chosen role of the inventor of 'comparative musicology' as a means of affirmation of indigenous Slavic, South-Slavic and Croatian folk music – what theoretically forms the type of the identity achievement character. Two other issues of interest in this area deal with one's engagement in discrimination and the identity formation strategies. While identifying himself with the strong tendency for affirmation of 'Slaveness', 'South-Slaveness' or 'Croateness' in both music and corresponding cultural habitus at large, Kuhač's sense of such distinctiveness did not declaratively discriminated the 'Otherness', except for the 'Germanness'. This issue might be touching upon the very core of Kuhač's supposed deep psychological conflict: the conceptually orientated and consciously-emotional pro-Slavic feelings vs. ideologically conditioned and subconsciously rejected anti-German feelings. Concerning the identity formation strategies, dealing with one's adaptation to the social world, the typology includes several types of different psychological, personality and social manners of individual behaviour, in which one can easily recognize Kuhač as a 'Guardian'- and a 'Resolver'- type. Other concepts attempt to capture the dynamic and fluid qualities of human social self- expression, suggesting identity as a process, and taking into account the reality of diverse and ever-changing social experience, thus proclaiming identity to be a volatile, flexible and abstract phenomenon. Indeed, Kuhač's ideological fluctuation between early pan-Slavic, later pan- South-Slavic and final prevailingly Croatian orientations is easily recognizable, but should be brought into connection with certain events in broader social, political and cultural spheres of Zagreb, Croatia, Hungary and the Habsburg Empire at large. Concerning the cultural identity, the main determinants concerning race, history, religious beliefs, aesthetics and some other issues in this regard display a non-questionable identity relation between Kuhač's starting and ending points. Other important cultural identifiers such as, for example, language form part and are more closely connected with another, more stricter issue – the national identity. In this, the question of original ethnicity did not represent a decisive factor in creating and experiencing one's identity, i.e. that the warped nationalistic “Blut und Boden-theory” from later times did not gain ground either in the majority of theories and practices of the early national movement of 19th century Croatia, or in this case in the identity of F. Ks. Kuhač.

Izvorni jezik
Engleski

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