Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall SingAmong the many intriguing characteristics of the Ukrainian folk tradition is the fact that Ukrainian epics were sung by a special type of minstrel -- the blind mendicant. These minstrels were organized into professional guilds that set standards for training and performance and provided the singers with protection and support throughout their careers. The separateness of Ukrainian culture became politically salient, and epic singers became the target of repression during the Stalin era (in 1939 there was a massacre of Ukrainian minstrels). For this reason -- and due also to tire secrecy that always surrounded the guilds' rites of membership and their association with mendicancy -- Ukrainian ministrelsy has been little studied. Natalie Kononenko's work is thus a revelation of a distinctive folk tradition and a little-known social order. It will be of interest to anyone with an interest in folklore, Ukrainian culture, or rural social history. |
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Apprenticeship Training and Initiation | 86 |
Learning Minstrel Songs | 108 |
Minstrel Guilds and the Orthodox Church | 133 |
Minstrel Rites and Songs | 199 |
The Begging Song and the Song of Gratitude | 211 |
Religious Songs | 220 |
Epics Dumy | 239 |
Historical Songs | 261 |
Secret Songs | 273 |
Bibliographic Essay | 282 |
Tables and Charts | 299 |
The Influence | 153 |
The Influence of Kobzari on Lirnyky | 171 |
Conclusion | 196 |
Bibliography | 337 |
Index | 349 |
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Pagina ii - Folklores and Folk Cultures of Eastern Europe SERIES EDITOR: Linda J. Ivanits Department of Slavic Languages Pennsylvania State University Ukrainian Minstrels And the Blind Shall Sing Natalie Kononenko An Anthology of Russian Folk Epics Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by James Bailey and Tatyana Ivanova AN ANTHOLOGY OF RUSSIAN FOLK EPICS Translated with an Introduction and Commentary by JAMES BAILEY AND TATYANA IVANOVA cM.E.Sharpe Armonk, New York London, England Uiw.
Pagina 93 - Then he took me in his arms and carried me into the parlor, for we were close to the house, and there the terrified servants followed us.
Pagina 54 - Choosing a profession on the basis of aptitude was just not something done in traditional Ukraine. In fact, since virtually everyone did agricultural work, professions were essentially nonexistent. If a boy was blind, agricultural work was impossible, so he could be either a minstrel or a beggar. Begging was shameful, but minstrelsy was "honest work.
Pagina xi - For a long time, I had trouble accepting that blindness was obligatory to minstrelsy in Ukraine. I assumed that blindness in the Ukrainian tradition functioned the same way that it did in other traditions with which I was familiar: more as a symbol of past excellence than as a real trait of actual performers.
Pagina 56 - Suprun attended automatically assumed that all of their charges had a particular predisposition to music, and encouraged all of them to sing. The Supruns themselves shared this view and felt that blindness fostered better memory and thus made the blind better performers.67 Nadiia gave another reason why blindness is associated with singing, reminiscent of the ideas in Shevchenko's "Perebendia" — namely that those who suffer have a particular need for song because singing relieves pain.
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Bibliografische gegevens
| Titel | Ukrainian Minstrels: And the Blind Shall Sing Folklores and folk cultures of Eastern Europe |
| Auteur | Natalie O. Kononenko |
| Editie | geïllustreerd, herdruk |
| Uitgever | M.E. Sharpe, 1998 |
| ISBN | 0765601443, 9780765601445 |
| Lengte | 360 pagina's |
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