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Author Kononenko, Natalie O.

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

Publication Info. Armonk, New York ; London, England : M.E. Sharpe, [1998]
©1998

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Location Call No. Status
 Berlin-Peck Memorial Library - Non Fiction  781.91 KONONENKO    Check Shelf
Description xvi, 360 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Series Folklores and folk cultures of Eastern Europe
Folklores and folk cultures of Eastern Europe.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 337-348) and index.
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.
Subject Kobzari -- History.
Minstrels -- Ukraine -- History.
Blind musicians -- Ukraine -- Biography.
Ukraine -- Social life and customs.
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Note And the blind shall sing
ISBN 0765601443 (C: alkaline paper)
9780765601445 (C: alkaline paper)
0765601451 (paperback)
9780765601452 (paperback)
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