Research Catalog

Title

Ukrainian minstrels : and the blind shall sing / by Natalie Kononenko.

Author

Kononenko, Natalie O.

Publication

Armonk, N.Y. : M.E. Sharpe, c1998.

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Details

Description

xvi, 360 p. : ill.; 24 cm.

Summary

The blind mendicant in Ukrainian folk tradition is a little-known social order, but an important one. The singers of Ukrainian epics, these minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance. Repressed during the Stalin era, this is their story.

Series Statement

Folklores and folk cultures of Eastern Europe

Uniform Title

Folklores and folk cultures of Eastern Europe

Subject

• Sänger
• Kobzari > History
• Minstrels > Ukraine > History
• Blind musicians > Ukraine > Biography
• Ukraine > Social life and customs

Genre/Form

• collective biographies.
• Biographies
• History
• Biografie.
• Biographies.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 337-348) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Foreword / Linda J. Ivanits -- Ukrainian Minstrelsy -- The Singers -- The Traditional Repertory: An Overview -- Common Stereotypes of Minstrels -- Blindness -- Minstrel Institutions: The Brotherhoods or Guilds -- Apprenticeship, Training, and Initiation -- Learning Minstrel Songs -- Minstrel Guilds and the Orthodox Church -- Minstrelsy and Martyrdom: The Influence of Religious Song on the Epic -- Epic and Lament: The Influence of Kobzari on Lirnyky -- Minstrel Rites and Songs -- Texts -- A Religious Festival -- The Minstrel Initiation Rite -- Songs -- The Begging Song and the Song of Gratitude -- The Begging Song of a Lirnyk -- As sung by Lirnyk Mykolai Doroshenko -- As sung by Kobzar Pavlo Hashchenko -- Religious Songs -- Lazarus -- Saint Barbara -- The Passion of Christ -- Guardian Angel -- The Prodigal Son -- The Hermit and Paraskovia Friday -- Justice -- Misery -- The Orphan Girl -- Misfortune -- Epics (Dumy) -- Duma about the Storm on the Black Sea -- The Escape of Three Brothers from Azov -- Kanivchenko -- Marusia Bohuslavka -- About the Widow and Her Three Sons -- The Stepfather -- Historical Songs -- The Dying Cossack and His Horse -- Baida -- Satirical Songs -- The Noblewoman -- Khoma and Iarema -- Secret Songs -- Zhachka.

ISBN

0765601443 (C : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^97028498^/MN

OCLC

• 37315361
• SCSB-13273190

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library