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.