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Kobzar, the Glossary

A kobzar (кобзар, pl. kobzari кобзарі) was an itinerant Ukrainian bard who sang to his own accompaniment, played on a multistringed kobza or bandura.^[1]

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Academy Awards

The Academy Awards of Merit, commonly known as the Oscars or Academy Awards, are awards for artistic and technical merit for the film industry.

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Alexander Graham Bell (born Alexander Bell; March 3, 1847 – August 2, 1922) was a Scottish-born Canadian-American inventor, scientist and engineer who is credited with patenting the first practical telephone.

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Bandura

A bandura (бандура) is a Ukrainian plucked-string folk-instrument.

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Bandurist

A bandurist (бандури́ст) is a person who plays the Ruthenian plucked string instrument known as the bandura. Kobzar and bandurist are Occupations in music.

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Bard

In Celtic cultures, a bard is a professional story teller, verse-maker, music composer, oral historian and genealogist, employed by a patron (such as a monarch or chieftain) to commemorate one or more of the patron's ancestors and to praise the patron's own activities. Kobzar and bard are Occupations in music.

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Belarus

Belarus, officially the Republic of Belarus, is a landlocked country in Eastern Europe.

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Blind musicians

Blind musicians are singers or instrumentalists, or in some cases singer-accompanists, who are legally blind.

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Chernihiv kobzars

The Chernihiv kobzari were grouped around the city of Mena, in the Chernihiv Oblast of northeastern Ukraine. Kobzar and Chernihiv kobzars are kobzars.

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Cossack Hetmanate

The Cossack Hetmanate (Hetmanshchyna; see other names), officially the Zaporozhian Host (Viisko Zaporozke; Exercitus Zaporoviensis), is a historical term for the 17th–18th centuries Ukrainian Cossack state located in central Ukraine.

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Cossack Mamay

Cossack Mamay or Kozak Mamai (Козак Мамай, in less significant variants also named as Cossack banduryst) is a Ukrainian folkloric hero, one of the standard characters in traditional Ukrainian itinerant puppet theater, the Vertep.

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Cossacks

The Cossacks are a predominantly East Slavic Orthodox Christian people originating in the Pontic–Caspian steppe of eastern Ukraine and southern Russia.

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Creative Commons

Creative Commons (CC) is an American non-profit organization and international network devoted to educational access and expanding the range of creative works available for others to build upon legally and to share.

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Digitization

Digitization is the process of converting information into a digital (i.e. computer-readable) format.

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Duma

A duma (дума) is a Russian assembly with advisory or legislative functions.

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Duma (epic)

A Duma (дума, plural dumy) is a sung epic poem which originated in Ukraine during the Hetmanate Era in the Sixteenth century (possibly based on earlier Kyivan epic forms).

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Dziady (wandering beggars)

Dziady (plural, lit. "old men, beggars"; singular: dziad), also dziady proszalne ("begging dziady") or dziad kalwaryjski ("calvarian dziad") was a term commonly used in many regions of Poland (as well as in other Slavic countries) to refer to nomadic beggars.

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Filaret Kolessa

Filaret Mykhailovych Kolessa (Філарет Михайлович Колесса; 17 July 18713 March 1947) was a Ukrainian composer ethnographer, folklorist, musicologist and literary critic.

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Graphophone

The Graphophone was the name and trademark of an improved version of the phonograph.

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History of Ukraine

Prehistoric Ukraine, as a part of the Pontic steppe in Eastern Europe, played an important role in Eurasian cultural events, including the spread of the Chalcolithic and Bronze Ages, Indo-European migrations, and the domestication of the horse.

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Hnat Khotkevych

Hnat Martynovych Khotkevych (Гнат Мартинович Хоткевич, also Gnat Khotkevich or Hnat Khotkevych, born December 31, 1877 – died October 8, 1938) was a Ukrainian theater and public figure, engineer, inventor, writer, historian, translator, ethnographer, art critic, playwright, screenwriter, composer, musicologist, violinist, pianist, baritone, bandurist, and teacher.

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Holodomor

The Holodomor, also known as the Ukrainian Famine, was a man-made famine in Soviet Ukraine from 1932 to 1933 that killed millions of Ukrainians. The Holodomor was part of the wider Soviet famine of 1930–1933 which affected the major grain-producing areas of the Soviet Union. While scholars are in consensus that the cause of the famine was man-made, it remains in dispute whether the Holodomor was directed at Ukrainians and whether it constitutes a genocide.

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Hurdy-gurdy

The hurdy-gurdy is a string instrument that produces sound by a hand-crank-turned, rosined wheel rubbing against the strings.

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Kharkiv

Kharkiv (Харків), also known as Kharkov (Харькoв), is the second-largest city in Ukraine.

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Klyment Kvitka

Klyment Vasilyovich Kvitka (Климент Васильович Квітка; February 4, 1880 – September 19, 1953) was a Ukrainian and Soviet musicologist and ethnographer, and the husband of poet Lesya Ukrainka.

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Kobza

The kobza (кобза), also called bandura (бандура) is a Ukrainian folk music instrument of the lute family (Hornbostel-Sachs classification number 321.321-5+6), a relative of the Central European mandora.

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Kobzar (poetry collection)

Kobzar (Ukrainian: Кобзар, "The bard") is a book of poems by Ukrainian poet and painter Taras Shevchenko, first published by Shevchenko in 1840 in Saint Petersburg, Russian Empire.

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Kobzarskyi Tsekh

Kobzarskyi Tsekh (Kobzars'kyi Tsekh), literally "Kobzar guild", is an organization of kobzars, which have existed since the 17th century in Ukraine. Kobzar and Kobzarskyi Tsekh are kobzars.

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Kobzarstvo

Kobzarstvo in the wider definition, is the art and related culture of singing to the accompaniment of the Ukrainian plucked string instruments bandura and kobza, as well as the Ukrainian hurdy-gurdy, which is called lira.

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Kuban bandurists

A Kuban bandurist is a person who plays the Ukrainian plucked string instrument known as the bandura, who is from Kuban, a geographic region of southern Russia surrounding the Kuban River.

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Lesya Ukrainka

Lesya Ukrainka (translit,; born Larysa Petrivna Kosach, Лариса Петрівна Косач; –) was one of Ukrainian literature's foremost writers, best known for her poems and plays.

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Lira (Ukrainian instrument)

The lira, or relia, (ліра) is a Ukrainian variant of the hurdy-gurdy, an instrument which can trace its history back to the 10th century.

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Lirnyk

The lirnyks (Ukrainian: лірник; plural: лірники – lirnyky) were itinerant Ukrainian musicians who performed religious, historical and epic songs to the accompaniment of a lira, the Ukrainian version of the hurdy-gurdy. Kobzar and lirnyk are blind musicians, Occupations in music and Ukrainian blind people.

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Lute

A lute is any plucked string instrument with a neck and a deep round back enclosing a hollow cavity, usually with a sound hole or opening in the body.

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Mykhailo Kravchenko

Mykhailo Stepanovych Kravchenko (Ukrainian: Кравченко Михайло Степанович; 1858-1917) was regarded as one of the most outstanding kobzars of Poltava province of the late 19th early 20th century. Kobzar and Mykhailo Kravchenko are blind musicians, kobzars and Ukrainian blind people.

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Natalie Kononenko

Natalie Kononenko is a professor of folklore currently with the University of Alberta.

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Oleksandr Borodai

Oleksandr Ivanovych Borodai (Oleksandr Ivanovych Borodai; 1844–1919) was a Ukrainian-American engineer, bandurist, and political and cultural activist.

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Oles Sanin

Oles Hennadiyovych Sanin (Олесь Геннадійович Санін; born July 30, 1972, in Kamin-Kashyrskyi) is a Ukrainian film director, actor, cinematographer, producer, musician and sculptor.

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Opanas Slastion

Opanas Heorhiiovych Slastion (Опанас Георгійович Сластіон, – September 24, 1933) was a Ukrainian graphic artist, painter, and ethnographer.

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Persecuted kobzars and bandurists

Kobzars and bandurists were a unique class of musicians in Ukraine, who travelled between towns and sang dumas, a meditative poem-song.

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Phonograph

A phonograph, later called a gramophone (as a trademark since 1887, as a generic name in the UK since 1910), and since the 1940s a record player, or more recently a turntable, is a device for the mechanical and analogue reproduction of recorded sound.

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Plural

The plural (sometimes abbreviated as pl., pl, or), in many languages, is one of the values of the grammatical category of number.

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Poland

Poland, officially the Republic of Poland, is a country in Central Europe.

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Preservation of kobzar music

The idea of the preservation of kobzar music by means of sound recording originated in 1901–02.

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Rushnyk

A rushnyk or rushnik (Полотенце ручник, рушник, ручнік, ručnik, ручник) is a decorative and ritual cloth.

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Russian Empire

The Russian Empire was a vast empire that spanned most of northern Eurasia from its proclamation in November 1721 until its dissolution in March 1917.

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Slavic Review

The Slavic Review is a major peer-reviewed academic journal publishing scholarly studies, book and film reviews, and review essays in all disciplines concerned with "Eastern Europe, Russia, the Caucasus, and Central Asia, past and present".

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Slobozhan kobzars

The kobzari of the Slobozhan bandura tradition were kobzari who lived in Sloboda Ukraine around the city of Kharkiv, Ukraine. Kobzar and Slobozhan kobzars are kobzars.

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Sound recording and reproduction

Sound recording and reproduction is the electrical, mechanical, electronic, or digital inscription and re-creation of sound waves, such as spoken voice, singing, instrumental music, or sound effects.

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Soviet kobzars

Soviet kobzars were musicians in the Ukrainian SSR who performed at a stylised replacement for traditional Ukrainian kobzari, or bandurists.

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Soviet Union

The Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR), commonly known as the Soviet Union, was a transcontinental country that spanned much of Eurasia from 1922 to 1991.

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Tape recorder

An audio tape recorder, also known as a tape deck, tape player or tape machine or simply a tape recorder, is a sound recording and reproduction device that records and plays back sounds usually using magnetic tape for storage.

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Taras Shevchenko

Taras Hryhorovych Shevchenko (Тарас Григорович Шевченко; 9 March 1814 – 10 March 1861) was a Ukrainian poet, writer, artist, public and political figure, folklorist and ethnographer.

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The Guide (film)

The Guide (Поводир, Povodyr) is a 2014 Ukrainian drama film directed by Oles Sanin.

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The Harvest of Sorrow

The Harvest of Sorrow: Soviet Collectivization and the Terror-Famine is a 1986 book by British historian Robert Conquest published by the Oxford University Press.

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Ukraine

Ukraine is a country in Eastern Europe.

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Ukrainian folk music

Ukrainian folk music includes a number of varieties of traditional, folkloric, folk-inspired popular music, and folk-inspired European classical music traditions.

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Ukrainian language

Ukrainian (label) is an East Slavic language of the Indo-European language family spoken primarily in Ukraine.

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The Ukrainian Soviet Socialist Republic (Ukrainska Radianska Sotsialistychna Respublika; Ukrainskaya Sovetskaya Sotsialisticheskaya Respublika), abbreviated as the Ukrainian SSR, UkSSR, and also known as Soviet Ukraine or just Ukraine, was one of the constituent republics of the Soviet Union from 1922 until 1991.

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Vsevolod Miller

Vsevolod Fyodorovich Miller (Всеволод Фёдорович Миллер) –) was a Russian philologist, folklorist, linguist, anthropologist, archaeologist, and academician of the Petersburg Academy of Sciences (1911). Vsevolod Miller graduated from the Moscow State University in 1870. In 1884, he became a professor at his alma mater.

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Wikimedia Ukraine is the regional chapter of the Wikimedia Foundation in Ukraine.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kobzar

Also known as Cobzar, Kobzari, Kobzars.

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