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Abstract In the period of Romantic Nationalism when epic received attention across Europe, Russia still had a living oral tradition. Important collections of Russian epic, byliny, were made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most byliny sing about events in what is now Ukraine, in...
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croxfordunivpr:10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190080778.013.45 2024-06-23T07:56:28+00:00 Byliny Russian Folk Epic Kononenko, Natalie 2023 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190080778.013.45 https://academic.oup.com/edited-volume/43182/chapter/410940754 en eng Oxford University Press The Oxford Handbook of Slavic and East European Folklore ISBN 9780190080778 9780190080785 book-chapter 2023 croxfordunivpr https://doi.org/10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190080778.013.45 2024-06-11T04:20:21Z Abstract In the period of Romantic Nationalism when epic received attention across Europe, Russia still had a living oral tradition. Important collections of Russian epic, byliny, were made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most byliny sing about events in what is now Ukraine, indicating that they likely originated there and were carried northward by professional musicians. The performers in the Russian north were non-professionals and sang without instrumental accompaniment. Their songs were complex, dealing with human struggles and portraying powerful figures, both male and female. Communist authorities seized on byliny and Sovietized them to valorize the Soviet state. Efforts to create noviny, new epics about Soviet accomplishments, failed; but sanitized versions of traditional byliny were successful in popular culture as stories for children. Currently, the heroes Ilia Muromets, Dobrynia Nikitych, and Alesha Popovich represent the essence of Russian folklore and are especially popular in animated film. Book Part Russian North Oxford University Press C45P1 C45N2 |
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Abstract In the period of Romantic Nationalism when epic received attention across Europe, Russia still had a living oral tradition. Important collections of Russian epic, byliny, were made in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Most byliny sing about events in what is now Ukraine, indicating that they likely originated there and were carried northward by professional musicians. The performers in the Russian north were non-professionals and sang without instrumental accompaniment. Their songs were complex, dealing with human struggles and portraying powerful figures, both male and female. Communist authorities seized on byliny and Sovietized them to valorize the Soviet state. Efforts to create noviny, new epics about Soviet accomplishments, failed; but sanitized versions of traditional byliny were successful in popular culture as stories for children. Currently, the heroes Ilia Muromets, Dobrynia Nikitych, and Alesha Popovich represent the essence of Russian folklore and are especially popular in animated film. |
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