Kobziarze-bandurzyści w kulturze i historii narodu ukraińskiego
A Role of Bandurists in the History and Culture of Ukrainian Nation

Summary/Abstract: The article presents the importance of vagrant singers (bandurists) who are usingbagpipes or bandura string instrument in history and culture of the Ukrainian people.I have been focusing not only on the development of the instruments used by singers itself,but also on the oral tradition that is carried out in their performances. Emphasis has beenplaced on showing their art during the Cossacks historical era as beyond doubt in this periodit developed in Ukraine the most. This was primarily caused by the emerge of the guildsgathering singers. The special attention was given also to the Romantic period in whichpipe playing has been vastly landmark in works of the most important Ukrainian writersand painters. I discussed also a period of persecution and manslaughter over this particulargroup of artists during the Soviet times, which greatly hampered the further development andheritage of pipe playing. Hopefully it gets slowly reborn in the independent Ukraine.

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